Kashmir’s Necropolis

Amrita Ghosh is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida.

• Introduction: Kashmir and the Optics of ViolenceChapter 1: From Biopolitics to Necropolitics: Reading Violence in The Collaborator and Curfewed NightChapter 2: Narratives Of ‘Horrorism’: Postcolonial Violence and Horror in The Night of Broken GlassChapter 3: Haider: Rewriting Shakespearean Ghosts into Postcolonial Specters in KashmirChapter 4: “This is a Troubled Place”—The Kashmir Shawl and the Violence of ‘Epicolonialism’Chapter 5: Alegropolitics, Syndesis and Postcolonial Bildungsroman: The Garden of Solitude & Tiger LadiesChapter 6: ‘Representing-Agency,’ Infra-Politics and Visual Cultures: Kashmiri Women in Images, 1947 to PresentConclusion: Kashmir and the UncannyBibliographyAbout the Author

Theoretically ambitious … Kashmir’s Necropolis engages with broader discourse of critical Kashmir Studies scholarship and underscores challenges posed by the necropolitical regimes and focuses on how the native subjects develop strategies to overcome the loss and reclaim the agency through alegropolitics. This book opens up new modalities for seeing the conflict spaces like Kashmir and analyse the literary and cultural productions from/on Kashmir.