Brutality and Sufferings: Exposure of Complex Trauma in Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night

Abstract

The aim of this research article is to explore the brutality and sufferings of Kashmiris which lead to destruction of property and lives through militants, resulted an increase in graveyards where unknown killed bodies were buried. The exposure of complex trauma is highlighted in Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night. War and conflict zones have been serving as canvass for fiction writers but hardly the Kashmir conflict found expression in literature particularly in fiction. Curfewed Night is a story of a man's adoration for his territory, the agony of leaving home, and the delight of return, just as a savage and moving bit of reportage from a bold young columnist and journalist. This paper aims at finding out the complex trauma caused by war and conflict on the central characters. For the said purpose the theory of Trauma has been utilized. It unearths the recesses of the minds of the characters and how the course of their lives are moved and shifted from one anchor to the other. The valley of Kashmir which is consider as queen of lands, famous for beauty, is militrilized and routine curfews suffered the lives of Kashmiris which is explored in Curfewed Night.