Literatures from Northeast India: Beyond the Centre–Periphery Debate

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Canon Formation and Literatures from India’s Northeast: Some Reflections
	Notes
	References
Part I: Literature from Northeast India
	Chapter 1: Love in the Conflict Zone: Negotiating Spaces in Davidson’s Gay Short Stories
		I. Introduction
		II. Being Gay in a Conflict Zone
		III. Love in a Conflict Zone
		IV. Cruising in a Conflict Zone
		V. Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 2: From Legend to Fiction, the Politics of Representation: A Study of Indira Goswami’s Thengphakhri Tahsildarar Taamor Toruwal (2009) and Bidyasagar Narzary’s Birgwsrini Thungri (2004)
		I. Introduction
		II. Indira Goswami’s Thengphakhri Tahsildarar Taamor Toruwal ( The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar)
		III. Biyasagar Nazary’s Birgwsrini Thungri ( The Sword of Birgosri)
		IV. From Legend to Fiction: Politics of Representation
		References
	Chapter 3: Writings from the ‘Periphery’: Folktales and Other Forms of Literature of the Paite Tribe of Manipur
		I. Introduction
		II. History of the ‘Paite’ Tribe
		III. History of Paite Language and Literature
		IV. Textual Analysis of the Literature of Manipur’s Paite Tribe
		V. Paite Dictionaries, Dailies and Textbooks
		VI. The Present-Day Literary Space
		VII. Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part II: Peripheral Voices
	Chapter 4: Play and Performance in Twenty-First Century Assam: Narratives from the Margins
		I. Introduction
		II. The Idea of the Storyline
		III. Analysing the Narratives from the Margins
		IV. Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 5: Subaltern Mentality and Literary Engagements: Positioning/Positionality, Identification/Identity in Select Poetic Voices from Northeast India
		I. Introduction
		II. The Dialectic of Positioning and Positionality: 1 A Site of Resistance
		III. The Dialectics of Identification and Identity: 1 A Site of Individuation
		IV. Subaltern Mentality: Spaces for Resistance in the Gramscian Paradigm
		V. Negotiating the Dialectics: The Case of Northeast Indian Poetry
		VI. Conclusion
		Note
		References
			Primary Sources
			Secondary Sources
	Chapter 6: The Char and the City: Reading Miyah Poetry
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		III
		IV
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7: Pitting Irony against Aggression: Miyah Poetry as a Challenge to the Dominant Assamese Discourse
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8: “The Ground Beneath our Feet”: Miyah Poetry and the Politics of Othering in Assam
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		II
		III
		Note
		References
Part III: Revisiting the Subaltern: Critical Approaches
	Chapter 9: Mythology, Contemporary Issues and Writers’ Response: The Manipuri Experience
		I. Mythical Intentions and Manipuri Writers
		II. Contemporary Issues and Writers’ Response
		References
	Chapter 10: Narrativizing Aging and Dementia: Reading Anuradha Sarma Pujari’s Jalchabi through the Lens of Gendered Gerontology
		References
	Chapter 11: Literature from Northeast India: The Problems of Categorising
		I. Introduction
		II. Problems of Categorising ‘Northeast Literature’
		III. Finding a Reading Strategy
		IV. Against Commodification
		V. Conclusion
		References
Part IV: Literature As Socio-Political Expression
	Chapter 12: The Subaltern Gandhian Discourse in Virendra Kumar Bhattacharya’s Mritunjaya
		Note
		References
	Chapter 13: The Road Not Taken: An Alternative Understanding of the Literature from Northeast India
		I. Introduction
		II. The Writers
		III. Texts and Context: The Basic Areas
			Critique of Conflict Resolution Strategies in the Northeast – Do They Resolve Conflict?
			Insecure Security
			Identity Revisited
		IV. Women and Peace
		V. Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 14: From Apocryphal Orality to Textual Veracity: The Translation of the Subaltern Voice in Easterine Kire’s Writings
		References
Index