Frontier Cultures
Frontier Cultures

Author: Manjeet Baruah

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2020-11-29

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1000365794

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The study of Assamese literature has so far been in terms of the history of the Assamese language. This book is a history of the narratives written in Assamese language and its relation to the process of region formation. The literature dealt with ranges from pre-colonial chronicles, ballads and drama to modern genres of fiction and critical writing in Assamese language. Taking the Brahmaputra valley and Assamese literature as case studies, the author attempts to link literature, its nature and use, to processes of region formation, arguing that such a study needs to take the context of historical geography into consideration. The book views region formation in north-east India as a dialectical process, that is, the dialectic between the shared and the distinct in inter-group and community relations. It borrows an anthropological approach to study written narratives and cultures so as to locate such narratives in specific processes of region formation.

Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys and poems
Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys and poems

Author: K. M. George

Publisher: Sahitya Akademi

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 1192

ISBN-13: 9788172013240

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This Is The First Of Three-Volume Anthology Of Writings In Twenty-Two Indian Languages, Including English, That Intends To Present The Wonderful Diversities Of Themes And Genres Of Indian Literature. This Volume Comprises Representative Specimens Of Poems From Different Languages In English Translation, Along With Perceptive Surveys Of Each Literature During The Period Between 1850 And 1975.

Assamese Language and Literature and Sahityarathi Lakshminath Bezbaroa
Assamese Language and Literature and Sahityarathi Lakshminath Bezbaroa

Author: Bhabananda Deka

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-12-04

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9781507801864

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This is the first English book introducing Assamese Language & Literature to the outside world authored by famous litterary scholar Prof. Bhabananda Deka and his associates. Two Presidents and Two Prime Ministers of India wrote Forewords of this historic book, which was officially released in New Delhi on 24 Nov 1968 by then President of India Dr Zakir Hussain, acknowledging the pioneering literary work of Principal Deka and his associates. After half a century, Er. Arnab Jan Deka recovered the only surviving copy of this priceless book and republished it after thorough editing.

It Does Not Die
It Does Not Die

Author: Maitreyi Devi

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1994-04-16

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780226143637

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An Indian writer gives her version of the romance which Mircea Eliade, the Romanian writer, described in his novel, Bengal Nights. "Why did you not tell the truth, Mircea?" she asks, not at all pleased that he portrayed her as an Oriental vamp.

There Is No Good Time for Bad News
There Is No Good Time for Bad News

Author: Aruni Kashyap

Publisher: Futurecycle Press

Published: 2021-04-05

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781952593062

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Finalist for Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. Finalist for Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry. THERE IS NO GOOD TIME FOR BAD NEWS opens in a country ravaged by prolonged political conflict. Told in the voices of survivors, it introduces the reader to a wide array of characters: the local police precinct summons a woman after three decades to identify the body of her insurgent son among recovered dead bodies; a soldier lives through nightmares about the war he fought forty years ago; a woman writes a letter to her insurgent lover; and an ordinary citizen, through an open letter, challenges the child-killing insurgents to kill her. At once vignettes and urgent pleas, these are stories as much as they are poems. Zooming through wars, protest marches, and conflicts, they show what it means to live under the duress of prolonged violence.

Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Plays and prose
Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Plays and prose

Author: K. M. George

Publisher: Sahitya Akademi

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 762

ISBN-13: 9788172017835

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This Volume Is Devoted To Plays And Prose Writings, The Task Of Bringing Together Samples Of The Best Of Modern Indian Writing Is Now Complete. The Translations Have Been Done By A Competent Team And Are Sure To Appeal To Lovers Of Literature