Literatures and Oratures as Knowledge Systems : Texts from Northeast India

Edited by Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta, Goutam Biswas and Samantak Das

ISBN 10: 8183702805 / ISBN 13: 9788183702805

Verlag: Akansha, 2011

Beschreibung

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Literatures and oratures as knowledge systems texts from the northeastMrinal Miri 3 Notes on tribal world truth and artSujata Miri 4 Narrative as another history or hisstory otherwiseSukalpa Byattacharjee 5 Matrix of Manipuri culture Lai-Haraoba of ManipurL Joychandra Singh 6 Pictorial representation and knowledge case study of HastividyarnavaMeghali Goswami 7 The performance of identity and histories of representationRimli Bhattacharya 8 Exotica or ethics reviewing the aesthetics and politics of contemporary Manipuri theatreEpsita Halder 9 The trickster figure in north-eastern folklore contemporary transformations in an Ao Naga short storyDebashree Dattaray 10 A study of selected old sayings and narratives of the Mizo oral literature as knowledge systemMargaret Ch Zama 11 Ethnophilosophy conceptual artifacts wisdom and critique of anthropocentrism in Indias northeastPrasenjit Biswas 12 Making sense of the present through Sanu Lamas MrgatrsnaPravesh G Jung 13 Ki Jingsneng Tymmen and the clan elderEsther Syiem 14 Generating knowledge Khasi-Jaintia oral textsSoumen Sen IndexIf asked a litterateur of Northeast India will speak of the primacy of perception - within its domain the world speaks to the author This is the world that the author encounters within the bounds of her senses The nature of this perception permeates the life-world which in the northeasts context has an untold biography It is untold because the language-silence negotiation is not rightly explored in the language of common history writing The litterateurs of Northeast India tell us this biography and contest the mainstream interpretative parameters that do not take cognizance of the meaningful pauses between utterances and sentences in the process of forming a world out of a life-world They tell us a history in the form of storytelling - a history which is alive and it is that history bringing with it visions of pluralist epistemologies that the papers collected here try to bring forward jacket 194 pp.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 97630

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Literatures and Oratures as Knowledge Systems : Texts from Northeast India
• Verlag: Akansha
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 8183702805
• ISBN-13: 9788183702805
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag