Interpreting Literature from Northeast India / edited by Margaret L. Pachuau; Anjali Daimari.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daimari, Anjali, editor.

Pachuau, Margaret L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian literature.

Literature--Indian authors.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New Delhi : Bloomsbury Publishing (IN), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury India, 2024.

System Details:

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Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction 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

ISBN:

9789356408944

OCLC:

1465671674