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Interpreting Literature from Northeast India
Interpreting Literature from Northeast India
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This book reflects the nascent sensibilities at work in literature emanating from Northeast India.
It takes into account the generic diversity in works derived from the region and discusses fiction, poetry, drama, folk narratives, film adaptations as well as early missionary narratives. It covers a wide spectrum of themes such as landscape, partition, World War, history, nationalism, violence and territoriality, memory and identity.
The book looks at works in English and vernacular from Northeast India states. It contextualizes developments within intellectual history and display aspects that relate to the continuing force in the ongoing study of the relationship between literature and culture studies, within a broader framework.
Table of Contents
Part I Politics of Identity
1. History in Fiction: A Reading of Mamang Dai's The Black Hill (2014) and
Escaping the Land (2021)
2. Beyond Violence and Territoriality: Redefining Northeast India as a Lived Space
3. Mizo Nationalism in the Works of James Dokhuma
4. The Manipuri Stage: Reconstructing Identity through Performance
Part IIEthos and Milieu
5. The Politics of Landscape Writing in Easterine Kire's When the River Sleeps and
Sky is my Father: A Naga Village Remembered
6. Lost forests and the 'Unreal City': An Ecocritical Reading of Anuradha Sarma
Pujari's Assamese Social Novel Iyat Ekhan Aaronya Asil
7. The Many Partitions: A Reading of Amitabha Dev Choudhury's “The Hand of
Radcliffe”
8. Gaze and the Female Body in Select Film Adaptations from Northeast India
Part III Lores and Narratives
9. Situating Narratives in Mizo Culture
10. Cruel Optimism in Prajwal Parajuly's Short Story “No Land is Her Land”
11. Shared memories, shared story-banks': Some Insights on Naga Writings in
English
12. Representation of Cultural Dynamics and Wartime Workers in Northeast Indian
Second World War Novels
13.Narratives of Death and Desiring in the Khasi Hills: A Study of Select Folktales
and Contemporary Writing in English
Part IV Poetic Sensibilities
14. Poetry from Northeast India: A Landscape of the Past and Present
15. The Poet as a Chronicler: Exploring the Poetry of Chandrakanta Murasingh
16. Textualizing Memory in Select Poems of Guru T. Ladakhi
About the editors and contributors
Index
Product details
| Published | Dec 26 2024 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 302 |
| ISBN | 9789356408289 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic India |
| Dimensions | 216 x 135 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd |
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