Kashmiri Rhetoric of Cultural Survivance: An Analysis of Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer through Indigenous Critical Perspective

Abstract

This research focuses on the analysis of the indigenous Kashmiri narrative, Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer, with reference to the Vizenorian trope, survivance, after placing it in the indigenous critical perspective. The paper enunciates survivance, explicating it from the Indian American perspective of indigeneity after situating it in the indigenous critical perspective. It, then, explains it etymologically as well as connotatively. The purpose is to apply it to the Kashmiri cultural context, explaining its rhetoric with reference to survivance to trace its robustness. It also helps understand the resilience of the Kashmiri cultural survivance against the Indian paracolonialism that is instrumental in making the historical Kashmiri narratives rhetorics of survivance. The research may help in the study of the Kashmiri rhetoric to trace the Kashmiri cultural revivance.