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Seeing The Unseen
Ather Zia’s book on the disappearances in Kashmir published by U
niversity of Washington Press was re-published in India by Zubaan. It won 2020, Gloria Anzaldua, Honorable mention prize given by the National Women’s Studies Association of America.
Author sees the book as a blend of ethnography and poetry
Relatives of disappeared, hold posters and photographs during a sit-in protest in Srinagar, seeking the whereabouts of their loved ones, KL photo by Bilal Bahadur
The highlight of the APDP movement,” Ather Zia tells us in her book
Resisting Disappearance, Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir, “is a monthly sit-in, which has become a ritualistic public mourning, marked alternately by funereal silence and lamentation for the disappeared men.”