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Contemporary literature from Northeast India : deathworlds, terror and survival

Title: Contemporary literature from Northeast India : deathworlds, terror and survival / Amit R. Baishya.
Author: Baishya, Amit R.
Publication: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

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Description

viii, 210 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Northeast Indian borderlands, a cultural crossroads between South, Southeast and East Asia, constitute an important post-colonial exception to the narratives of nation, troubling the common perception of India as an ostensibly liberal regime. 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. The militarization of everyday life and the subsequent growth of cultures of impunity has left a lasting impact on ordinary existence in this border zone. Like in the much more widely discussed case of Kashmir, the governance of the Northeast region is not characterized so much by the management of life, the domain of what Michel Foucault calls biopolitics, but rather around the preponderance and distribution of death, what the postcolonial critic Achille Mbembe calls necropolitics. Not surprisingly, along with Mbembe's theorizations, the influential works of the Italian philosopher, Giorgio Agamben, on 'bare life' have provided fruitful pathways to a study of the sovereign politics of death and political terror in this region. The author draws upon the conceptual literature on political terror and sovereign power through a reading of Anglophone fictions alongside Assamese fictional narratives (all published after 1990), but shifts the onus from the 'why' of violence to the 'how' of lived experience. An original study of contemporary survivalist fictions that explore survival under conditions of civil and military threat, this book is a valuable contribution to the field of contemporary global literature"--

Series Statement

Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 127

Uniform Title

Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 127.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Necropolitical literature from Northeast India, the everyday and survival -- The Mayabi State: narratives of torture, sexual violence and disability haunting -- Of hill spaces: survival in duress in no-man's zones in Assamese militant fictions -- Survivance and supplements: revenants and animality in "The Last Song" and "Soru Dhemali, Bar Dhemali" -- Being-as-Following: modalities of survival and relationality in An outline of a republic and Felanee.

Call Number

JFE 24-801

ISBN

9781138597341
1138597341
9780429486937 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018021966
40028714598

OCLC

1043954298

Author

Baishya, Amit R., author.

Title

Contemporary literature from Northeast India : deathworlds, terror and survival / Amit R. Baishya.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 127

Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 127.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Other Standard Identifier

40028714598

Research Call Number

JFE 24-801

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