1st Edition
Contemporary Literature from Northeast India Deathworlds, Terror and Survival
By Amit Baishya
Copyright 2019
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Northeast Indian borderlands, a cultural crossroads between South, Southeast and East Asia, constitute an important post-colonial exception to the narratives of nation, troubling the common perception of India as an ostensibly liberal regime. This book is the first to consider the representations of the effects of political terror and survival in contemporary literature from Northeast... Read more
1.Necropolitical Literature from Northeast India, the Everyday and Survival 2. The Mayabi State: Narratives of Torture, Sexual Violence and Disability Haunting 3. Of Hill Spaces: Survival in Duress in No-Man’s Zones in Assamese Militant Fictions 4. Survivance and Supplements: Revenants and Animality in "The Last Song" and "Soru Dhemali, Bar Dhemali" 5. Being-as-Following: Modalities of Survival and Relationality in An Outline of a Republic and Felanee
Biography
Amit R. Baishya is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Oklahoma, USA. He specializes in postcolonial literature and cultural studies.
