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Negotiating Culture: Writings from Mizoram

Editat de Margaret L. Pachuau
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 feb 2023
In these phenomenal essays, 14 scholars take stock of the effects and response to identity, and culture studies within Mizo literary narratives. The essays address issues that contextualize the development of subaltern and postcolonial studies and the quest for identity within the Mizo perspective. This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective, with insights from history, memory studies, cultural studies and attempt to locate and situate dynamics that are related to orality, history and narrative. Linking the concern with identity to popular literature, individualism, and the need to draw borderlines, the essays identify the most important topics in individual and collective identities in the Mizo. The illuminating essays contextualize developments within Mizo intellectual history, and display aspects that relate to the continuing force in the ongoing study of the relationship between literature, ethnography, and ethnic and cultural studies.From orality, colonial, and postcolonial parameters, the book analyzes the ways in which colonial struggles have continued to contribute to postcolonial discourse in the Mizo, by producing fundamental ideas about the relationship between non-western and western cultures.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789356400184
ISBN-10: 9356400180
Pagini: 300
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic India
Locul publicării:New Delhi, India

Caracteristici

Offers a multidisciplinary perspective, with insights from history, memory studies, cultural studies and locates and situates dynamics that are related to orality and history.

Notă biografică

Margaret L. Pachuau is a professor at the Department of English and Culture Studies, Mizoram University, India. An alumni of JNU New Delhi, her areas of interest include fiction, creative writing, translation and culture studies. She has completed 2 UGC major research projects, 'Rewriting Identity: A Discourse on Select Mizo Narratives' and 'Situating Religion and Power in Select Mizo Narratives', as principal investigator and has coordinated a departmental project under UGC SAP DRS II: 'Situating the Mizo/Zohnahthlak in Mizoram and Manipur: A Study of the Historical and Socio-Cultural Processes of Emergent Identities from Orality to Writing'. Apart from her articles in reputed journals, her works have been published in The Oxford Anthology of Writings from North-East India and Modern Practices in North East India: History, Culture, Representation. She has also edited Lockdown Literature from Mizoram and co-edited the Anthology of English Prose and Poetry. Her translations from Mizo to English have been published in The Heart of the Matter and Handpicked Tales from Mizoram and Folklore from Mizoram. She won the first prize for fiction in translation for The Jackfruit Tree (Lamkhuang) in a competition organised by Muse India, a literary e-journal.

Cuprins

Foreword by G.J.V. PrasadAcknowledgements Introduction by Margaret L. PachuauPart I: Boundaries and Narratives1. Remembering Rambuai: Trauma, Memory and Narrative by C. Lalrinfeli2. Territoriality: Its Concept and Relevance in the Mizo Worldview by Catherine Laldinpuii Fanai3. Colonial Encounters: Traces of Empire in Mizo Fiction by Hannah LalhlanpuiiPart II: Systems, Ethos and Perspective4. Exploring the Tribal Justice System in Mizo Folk Tales by Lalrinsangi Nghinglova5. Patriarchy and Gender Inequality in Mizo Society by Z.D. Lalhmangaihzauva6. Satire and the Mizo: Narrating the Zephyr Drama Club by Immanuel Lalramenkima7. Performing Madness: Laltheri's Narrative by Lydia LalduhawmiPart III: Lores and Culture8. Narrating Mizo Literature for Children by Z.D. Lalhmangaihi9. Mizo Folklore as a Pedagogic Device by Judy Lalparmawii Khiangte10. Telling Our Stories: Reflecting upon Oral Narratives in Mizo by Margaret L. Pachuau11. Grotesque Aesthetics in 'Hlawndawhthanga' by HmingsangzualiPart IV: Home and Identity12. Conceptualising Cultural Identity and Hybridisation in Mizo Magazines by L.V. Lalrintluangi13. Home, Roots and Ethnic Identity: Portrayal of the Natural Picturesque in Mizo Poetry by Lalthansangi Ralte14. Writing the Self: Voices of Young Mizo Women by Lalsangliani RalteAbout the Editor and Contributors Index