Writings About Kashmir : Illuminating the Labyrinthine Region (Hardcover)

1. Introduction Nyla Ali Khan Section 1: History, Memory, and Fiction: A Critical Dialogue 2. Mapping the Claims of History and Memory in Theorizing of the Kashmir Question Sana Shah 3. Excrement and Waste: Examining the Ramifications of the Municipal Infrastructures and the Problem of Global Eco-Cosmopolitism in Malik Sajad’s Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir Zachary Vincent Bordas Section 2: History, Gender, and Politics: A Critical Dialogue 4. "Dancing Naked": Gender, Trauma and Politics in the Mystical Poetry of Lal Ded Abir Bazaz 5. Women, Morality and Law: Prostitution in Kashmir Sana Kochak 6. Women Negotiating Public Sphere in Conflict-Ridden Kashmir: A Case of Sacred-Sites Zohra Batul 7. Freda Bedi Looking "From a Woman’s Window" on Kashmir Andrew Whitehead Section 3: History, Trauma, and Poetry: A Complex Relationship 8. Poets of Circumstances: Love, Trauma and Death in Digital Poetry Veena Mani