1st Edition
Representation Narrative, Indigeneity and Knowledge Construction
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction
PART I
Theorizing Representation
1 Representation and Social Reality: A Study of Epidemic Narratives
2 Representation and Literature: Temsula Ao’s Poetry
PART II
Rewriting Hi(stories) and Indigeneity
3 Re-claiming the “Gorkha”: Reading the Song Bir Gorkhali Within the Context of the Indian Gorkha Identity
4 Bhima Bhoi, Apocalypse, and the Context of Nineteenth-Century Odishan History
5 The Tribal in Sarala Mahabharata
PART III
Gendering Religion and Folklore
6 Religious Hypocrisy, Protection Acts, and Wandering in Doris Kartinyeri’s Kick the Tin and Glenyse Ward’s Wandering Girl 7 The Tapoyi Story: A Window into Odisha’s Rich Cultural History
8 “Vyasa’s Leftovers”1: Shifting [Con]texts of Draupadi from Myth to Fiction
9 South Indian Rural Female Folk Deity – Marriamma
PART IV
Representation and Popular Culture
10 Reimagining Tribal Life through Folktales of Odisha: A Critical Overview
11 Representation of the Indigenous: Appreciating the Native Canadian Narratives
PART V
Nativizing the Body
12 Inter-generational Rape in Colonial Australia
13 Chronicled Realities: Representation of Illness in Selected Illness Narratives
PART VI
Pedagogy of Indigenous Wisdom
14 Folk Wisdom and Ecological Approach: Indigenous Ecologies and the Binjhal Way of Life
15 Dalit Literature(s): Pedagogy and Its Challenges*
Index
Biography
Anand Mahanand is Professor at EFL University, Hyderabad. He has developed materials for EFLU, IGNOU, MANUU, and Dr BRAOU, Hyderabad. His important publications include English for Academic and Professional Skills, Folktales for Pleasure Reading, and Literature for Language Skills.
Amith Kumar P.V. (Dr) is Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and India Studies at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. He has been Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Portland State University, Oregon, USA, from August 2007 to June 2008, and DAAD Visiting Fellow at the Technical University, Dresden, Germany, from April 2015 to July 2015. His book titled Bakhtin and Translation Studies: Theoretical Extensions has garnered much critical acclaim.
Monali Sahu Pathange (Dr) works as Assistant Professor of English at Mahindra University, Hyderabad. Her areas of research include graphic narratives, literatures from the Global South, and energy humanities. Her paintings have featured as the cover pages of Lokaratna, which is a UGC registered, peer-reviewed international e-journal of Folklore Foundation, India, which is in collaboration with the World Oral Literature Project, Cambridge University.
