Kokborok Literature from Tripura
Kokborok Literature from Tripura

Author: Dustin Lalkulhpuia

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2023-09-19

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 152753071X

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This illuminating study delves into the cultural identity and traditions of the Borok tribe, an indigenous community in Tripura, India, through an in-depth examination of selected Kokborok folktales and contemporary poetry and fiction. The author sheds light on how these writers draw on their cultural myths, folklore, and everyday experiences to challenge mainstream literature’s stereotypes and reclaim their cultural heritage. By analysing these works, the book uncovers the Borok tribe’s historical context, which has been shaped by cultural domination and military struggles for identity preservation. Through a focus on themes of rootedness, cultural loss, and oral tradition, the author offers an insightful analysis of the tribe’s little-known narratives, bringing attention to the continuous suffering of its people amidst socio-economic and political problems. This work offers a significant contribution to understanding the cultural traditions and identity of the Borok tribe in Tripura.

Identity in Northeast Indian Literature
Identity in Northeast Indian Literature

Author: Dustin Lalkulhpuia

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-09-19

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1040145183

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This book provides an in-depth analysis and critical examination of the representation of ethnic, sexual, cultural, and individual identities in selected literary works by contemporary writers from Northeast India. The book explores the complex dynamics of identity construction, sexuality, marginalisation, ethnicity, and belonging in the context of Meghalaya and Northeast India as a whole. The author analyses poetry and prose by Janice Pariat, Anjum Hasan, Kynpham Singh Nongkynrih, and other Khasi writers. These works candidly portray the turmoil afflicting contemporary Meghalaya – from insurgency and ethnic tensions to ecological threats and loss of roots as well as reconciliation, integration, and mutual understanding. Using postmodern and postcolonial literary strategies, the book depicts fluid, heterogeneous, and multifaceted notions of identity in Northeast India. An exploration of ethnicity, belonging, and unbelonging in the Northeastern context, this book presents marginalised voices and liminal spaces. It will be of interest to academics focusing on Indian English literature, postcolonial literature, and South Asian Studies.

Indigenous Writers of India: North-East India
Indigenous Writers of India: North-East India

Author: Ramaṇikā Guptā

Publisher: Concept Publishing Company

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9788180693007

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Ramnika Gupta's Indigenous Writers Of India: Introduction And Contribution Vol.1: North-East India makes a valuable contribution in introducing literatis of North East who weave an amazing fabric with different hues and colors, patterns & symbolic motifs of the fascinating culture of the North East India

Srikanta
Srikanta

Author: Saratchandra Chattopadhyay

Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

Published: 2017-01-06

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9350830272

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The novel, Srikanta, depicts the story of a vagabond young man who wandered from one place to another harbouring some inexplicable yearning. He remained a stoic all his life even as he lived among beautiful women. He lived apathetic to worldly pleasures. He was dear to all but belonged to none. An immortal piece of work, the novel was written by globally renowned Bengalee story-teller Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay.

Dancing Earth
Dancing Earth

Author: Robin S. Ngangom

Publisher: Penguin Books India

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0143102206

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The poets of North-East India, though belonging to diverse spaces, cultures, languages and religions, share a common bond. It is a sensibility defined by a deep connection with the land; the overarching presence of nature in their lives; the predominance of myths and tribal folklore; and the search for an identity. All this informs their poetry and gives it a unique flavour. Much of the distinctiveness of their work is also the consequence of contemporary events, often marked by violence. Like its title poem The Dancing Earth , the anthology too, is a celebration of this life, in all its unpredictable variety, richness and contradictions. So while Thangjam Ibopishak writes I Want to be Killed By an Indian Bullet and Chandrakanta Murasingh speaks of a minister with neither inside nor outside , there are also Temsula Ao s poems about her stone-people ancestors; Mamang Dai s portraits of swift rivers and primeval forests; and the Shillong poets with their mist-shrouded pine slopes, red cherries and gridlocked streets.