Contemporary Literature from Northeast India: Deathworlds, Terror and Survival

ISBN-13: 9780367586690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 210 str.

Amit Baishya

Opis

This book is the first to consider the representations of the effects of political terror and survival in contemporary literature from Northeast India. Fictions from this polyglot region offer alternative representations that show the post-colonial nation-state to engage in acts of aggression that parallel colonial regimes.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.