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Vol.2 , No. 1, Publication Date: Mar. 20, 2019, Page: 5-15
| [1] | Inam ul Haque, Department of English Language and Literature, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan. |
| [2] | Azhar Iftikhar, Department of English Language and Literature, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan. |
A desire to occupy Kashmir valley to render it forbidden for Kashmiris is closely knitted with pristine paradise-like landscape of the valley. A forensic analysis of The Book of Gold Leaves reveals that the occupiers apart from their maniac wishes for the land hold apathetic disposition towards people of the valley. Entire Kashmir community feels tremors of demonic materialization of a form of maniac fetishization. Teenage girls and older women of Kashmir are equally on the rack. Hindus and Muslims of the valley suffer alike as do their religious places; the temple and the shrine. Art and culture are subjected to a conflict of gory violence that is meted upon the people and the landscape indiscriminately. Plurality of Kashmiri society is smashed to smithereens. Artistic developments in the valley stand retarded. The novel may be viewed as positing that human sufferings, impediments to freedom of civic activities of valley’s inhabitants and violence therein essentially germinate from fetishization of the land by the occupiers.
Keywords
1990s Kashmir, Militarized Inner-City, The Disappeared, Carnage, Srinagar
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