Retelling History: Mamang Dai’s The Black Hill as a Novel of Native Spirit

  • G. Vidhya Lakshmi

Abstract

Literature acts as a vehicle for self expression by making keen observations, by recording serious contemplation and critical acumen which reflect on human life in totality. Now-a-days, the marginalized indigenous ethnicities are seeking the attention of the world to establish their own identity or at least to make others aware of their living. Emerging literatures from the Northeast of India pave way for the varied indigenous ethnicities to represent their dynamic cultures, re-establish their ethnic identity and their hidden past in the linear history. Mamang Dais literary writings are one such from the Northeast frontier of India presenting her own ethnic society. In the present research paper, the researcher analyses Dais imaginative correlation of the hidden past to the recorded history as an attempt to retrace tribal history and cultures

Published
2019-11-15
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Articles