Narrating Violence: A Study of Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memory of Life, Love and War in Kashmir

Political, Racial, Communal and Gender violence is one of the major subjects in the fields of literature as well as other fields of humanities and social sciences. This has resulted after the breakdown of world peace and order after the two Great Wars. Although violence has been there in the human society from the very beginning of the creation, but violence has been taken as a subject of concern by many poets, philosophers and researchers in both literature and other humanities’ subjects after the breakdown of empires and emancipation of colonized nations worldwide. One feels the irony in the fact that freedom of nations has not brought forth a respite from the incidents and cults of tyranny and victimization for so long. Even after her freedom of from the colonial shackles, India along with her young neighbouring countries have for many political, communal and regional reasons been engaging and dealing with violence in many ways. Violence has inspired many a book that has either come from those who loathe it, or from who justify it, or from those who are caught in it as victims