Kashmiri Life Narratives : Human Rights, Pleasure and the Local Cosmopolitan (Hardcover)

Introduction: The Poet and the Cassette Player Chapter 1 Mobilizing Pleasure through Genre: Curfewed Night and Our Moon Has Bloodclots as Kashmiri Bildungsromane Chapter 2 Literary Fiction as an Alternative to a Human Rights Report: The Case of Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator Chapter 3 Imagining Local Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Human Rights in Sudha Koul’s The Tiger Ladies Chapter 4 Palatable Fictions: Negotiating Narratives of Consumption and Subalternity in Jaspreet Singh’s Chef Chapter Five Portable Pleasures and Papier Mache: Strategic exoticism in Mirza Waheed’s The Book of Gold Leaves Conclusion