Literatures from Northeast India : beyond the centre-periphery debate / edited by K M Baharul Islam.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Canon formation and literatures from India's Northeast: some reflections / M Asaduddin -- Literature from Northeast India. Love in the conflict zone: negotiating spaces in Davidson's gay short stories / Himadri Roy -- 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) / Anjali Daimari -- Writings from the periphery: folktales to other forms of literature - a critical approach / Mercy V. Guite -- Peripheral voices. Play and performance in 21st century Assam: narratives from the margins / Mrinal Jyoti Goswami --Subaltern mentality and literary engagements: positioning/positionality, identification/identity in select poetic voices from Northeast India / Manash Pratim Borah -- The char and the city: reading Miyah poetry / Sanjib Sahoo -- Pitting irony against aggression: Miyah poetry as a challenge to the dominant Assamese discourse / Shalim M Hussain -- The ground beneath our feet: Miyan Poetry and politics of othering in Assam / Haris Qadeer -- Revisiting the subaltern: critical approaches. Mythology, contemporary issues and writers' response: the Manipuri experience / M. Rameshwor Singh -- Narrativizing aging and dementia: reading Anuradha Sarma Pujari's Jalchabi through the lens of gendered gerontology / Nizara Hazarika -- Literature from NortheastIndia: the problems of categorizing / Prasenjit Das -- Literature as socio-political expression. The subaltern Gandhian discourse in Virendra Kumar Bhattacharya's Mritunjaya / Jaiwanti Dimri -- The Road not taken: an alternative understanding of the literature from Northeast India / Jayanta M. Tamuly -- From apocryphal orality to textual veracity: the translation of the subaltern voice in Easterine Kire's writings / Mohammad Saquib.<br>

"This book showcases the diverse literary traditions from India's Northeast and their shared connections and lineages. It critically analyses a selection of literary works from authors and poets from this region and the hegemonies of language, ethnicity and politics that have framed these voices. A region with rich cultural and ethnolinguistic diversity, the literature from Northeast India is representative of varied histories, languages, socio-cultural and religious practices. The book highlights the distinct use of language, forms, cultural symbols and metaphors which articulates the unique experiences of conflict, beauty and culture in this area. Focusing on the translingual and transcultural aspects of these literary works, it examines the dynamics between literature, language and their socio-cultural influences. The book pays attention to themes of representation, identity and power to showcase voices and perspectives of dissent, criticism and introspection. It explores contemporary critical approaches to literature from the Northeast, by re-examining the idea of the centre and the periphery and the position of subaltern literary voices. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of literature, language, cultural studies, postcolonial studies and South Asian studies"--