Kashmir The Paradise on Earth to a Traumatic Landscape A Study on Repossession through Contemporary Kashmir Fictions

Abstract

Jammu and Kashmir, the Paradise on Earth, stands unique in its beauty and richness newlineof natural resources; it has started to fade after the partition of the two nations, India newlineand Pakistan, in 1947. The war and conflict in Kashmir over the past 70 years newlinehave changed the everyday lifestyle of the people. It has affected the regular habitat newlineof the people, including schooling, business, tourism, and so on. The continuous newlinewar and conflict have caused numerous psychological problems among the people of newlineKashmir. Common psychological problems like Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, posttraumatic newlinestress disorder, and post-traumatic growth have become common among the newlineKashmiris. The pain of the people in Kashmir has been portrayed through movies, newlinefiction, biographies, and short stories to portray the real suffering of the people in newlineKashmir. Numerous tales in partition narratives explain the insurgency, counterinsurgency, newlineand conflicts in Kashmir. Partition narratives serve as a medium to newlineexpress the pain and loss of the people during and after partition. The therapeutic newlinelandscape is defined as the changing places, settings, situations, locals, and milieus newlinethat deal with both the physical and psychological environments associated with newlinetreatment or healing. It is used to identify the traumatic landscape as an inversion of newlinethe therapeutic landscape. Geotrauma, a concept proposed by Rachael Pain, which newlineoutlines the multitude of temporalities of geotrauma by identifying the overlapping newlineplacings of trauma by geographers and others; they are memorial places, retraumatizing newlineplaces, layered places, hardwired places, mobile places, places of repossession and newlinehealing places. The research identifies those traumatic places in Kashmir addressed newlinein the select novels through the survivors as experts in narrating and understanding newlinetrauma which enables us to find how resisting works and how the place deals with newlinetrauma. To understand the coping mechanism of people to handle trauma, La Capra s newlineconcept, Acting out verse Working through, is a cop