Prevailing Longingness for ‘Identity’: A Study of Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night and Rahul Pandita’s Our Moon Has Blood Clots
International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews, 2019
Posted: 30 Apr 2020
Date Written: June 2, 2019
Abstract
History has a strong tendency to repeat itself in many patterns. And one such criterion can be seen vividly in the fictionalized narratives of the above mentioned writers. This paper delineates with the issue of identity which is somewhat decentered from that core origin of the people belonging to Kashmir. This dislocation and crisis of identity can be deemed as a leitmotif in the writings of these Kashmiri writers. The concept of Identity itself is an ambiguous one where one’s own self gets altered by the concerned situation. Kashmir remains on the cover page of mainstream media because of the everyday bloodshed and the politics which is being played on from time immemorial by both the Kashmiri extremists and the government. This violence and tumult has been written in profuse manner by Rahul Pandita and Basharat Peer, while depicting the root cause of this alteration of identity.
Keywords: Narratives, Dislocation, Identity, Ambiguous, Violence, Alteration
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