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Title Kashmiri Rhetorics of Survivance: A Comparative Analysis of Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night and Rahul Pandita’s Our Moon has Blood Clots

Author(s) MAZHAR ABBAS

Abstract This research focuses on the Vizenorian trope of survivance after situating it in indigenous critical theory as presented by Professor Jodi Byrd and Morten-Robinson, using it a priori for analyzing indigenous Kashmiri narrativized rhetorics. The research, then, defines and postulates the term as a cultural practice used in indigenous narratives for implicit as well as explicit social, political, and legal objectives. Appropriating this trope for Kashmiri narrativized rhetorics, focusing on autobiographical narratives of Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night and Rahul Pandita’s Our Moon has Blood Clots, the research further explores Malea Powell and Earnest Stormberg’s postulations regarding rhetorication of narratives and presence of survivance practices in American Indian rhetorics to assist in validating the argument of Kashmiri cultural survivance practice. The act of comparative and contrastive analysis of these Kashmiri narrativized rhetorics in the research substantiates this argument, demonstrating political and legal ramifications of Kashmiri cultural survivance practices in the individual cultural community as well as in common Kashmiri composite culture, or Kashmiriyat, in the presence of incumbent protracted paracolonialism, concluding on the perspective of further inquiry into Kashmiri trickster[ization].

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Publication Date 2020-07-06

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