Exploring North-East Indian Writings in English: Vol. II
Contents: Preface. 1. The Valiant first sex of the land of the Brahmaputra: the Heroic womanhood of the North-east in the fictionof Indira Gloswami/G.K. Das. 2. The naked sky is the witness: contemporary poetry in English from Sikkim and Tripura/Nigamananda Das. 3. Mental Maps of sorrow’s hills: Nabanita Kanungo and the poetry of witness/Preetika Venkatakrishnan. 4. Sweeping generalizations false dichotomies: an examination of the insider-outsider dichotomy in Anjum Hasn’s Lunatic in My Head/Amarjeet Nayak. 5. More than Tractor Art : a reading of some Assamese short stories of Moushumi Kandali/Sanjib Sahoo. 6. Reading Mitra Phukan more as a humanist than a feminist/S. Kanitha. 7. Pages stained with Blood: an interactive introduction/N.D. Dani. 8. My Songs and Universal Voices: analyzing poetry of Arbind Kumar Choudhary/Bhaskar Roy Barman. 9. The poetic paysage Bhaskasr Roy Barman/Arbind Kumar Choudhary. 10. Ethno-ecology, women’s predicaments and the idea of evil in selected works of Mamang Dai and Indira Goswami/Nigamananda Das. 11. Like a leaf of a page leaping up in flames: a book review of Krishna Barua’s Not I, But the Wind/Sukanya Sharma.
The term North East is a form of geographical linguistic and ethnic stereotyping that clubs together eight disparate, often misunderstood sister states comprising of Assam. Meghalaya. Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram and Sikkim that happen to lie in the Northeastern periphery of the Indian union.
North-East India is an under represented region in many ways. The troubled political climate, the beautiful landscape and the confluence of various ethnic groups perhaps and given rise to a body of writings that is completely different from the rest of India. Some of the most interesting Indian writing in English today is coming from this region.
The present anthology, Exploring North East Indian Writings in English in English, Volume II, is a sincere attempt to evaluate some prominent literary figures of North East Indian Literature in English. It includes more than ten in depth critical essays on some of the latest perspectives of the region by eminent scholar of the country. There are references to many other writers as well in the process of discussion.
