1st Edition
Writings About Kashmir Illuminating the Labyrinthine Region
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
Biography
Nyla Ali Khan teaches at Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC), USA. She has also taught as Visiting Professor at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA. Formerly, she was Professor at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, USA. She received her PhD in English Literature and her Masters in Postcolonial Literature and Theory at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA. Dr Nyla Ali Khan is the author of several published articles, book reviews, and editorials. She has edited Parchment of Kashmir, a collection of essays on Jammu and Kashmir, written five books, including Educational Strategies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones: Transforming, Not Transmitting, Trauma; The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism; and Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir: Between Indian and Pakistan. Several of her articles have appeared in academic journals, newspapers, and magazines in the United States and South Asia.
