Title: Reading India's North East : literature, land and people /
Authors: Kalita, Garima
Year: 2016
Subjects: Indic literature India, Northeastern History and criticism.; Folk literature, Indic India, Northeastern History and criticism.; Indic poetry India, Northeastern History and criticism.; Indic literature; Literature; India, Northeastern In literature.; Northeastern India
Contents: Folk-tales of North-east India : some recurrent motifs of violence -- A crisis of ascription -- Memories of place and places of memories : reading identity in women's writing from Northeast India -- Nationalism in the novels of Birendra Kumar Bhattacharyya : a reading of Yaruingam and Mrityunjay -- Humanity, art and life : an exploration reading the novels of Navakanta Barua -- Readings from no man's land -- Moth-eaten Howdah of the Tusker : a metaphor of opulence and decay -- Blood and judgment in Lashminath Bezbaroa's "Paatmugi" and "Bhadori" -- Along the high road : a multilayered spectacle of life -- Beyond the picturesque : a day in Sohra -- Y Ibomcha : a modernist with a difference -- Folklore and poetry : a reading of Nongkynrih's "A day in Sohra" -- Saurav Kumar Chaliha's "A game of chess" : a modernist predicament -- Of generations past, the now and eternity : a glimpse into Navakanta Barua's poem, Polox (Silt) -- Poetry of Hiren Bhattacharyya : a concoction of reality and reflection -- Nirupama Borgohain's novels : a select feminist reading.