The book makes a critical intervention in contemporary discourses on Human Rights and examines them in the context of insurgency, particularly in North-East India. The institutionalization of human rights has made the modern nation-states and international bodies like the United Nations, the custodian of individual and collective rights. The violation of human rights takes place when such bodies and the state assume the role of "hegemonic actor in the public ...
The essays in this volume seek to represent the incoherent currents of literary and cultural theory threatening the privileged status of the text and cultural practices. The central argument progresses through a celebration of multiple possibilities of genres and subjectivities which draw on the selective enterprises of many a author, critic and theorist who have tried to map a terrain for a moment of postcolonial emergence. The work examines the in-between ...
The specific ethno-narratives of various communities of North East India with a wide range of themes; starting from the construction of identities through folk and ethno-narratives to political and historical structuring of ethnic identities have been contributed by scholars, known both for their erudition and commitment, in this volume. Most of the articles have drawn upon a methodology of insider’s and participant perspective in order to ...