This volume discusses and theorizes cultures of narratives and knowledge production that shape the system of “Culture” which has been arguably the greatest epoch of our civilization.
This volume discusses and theorizes cultures of narratives and knowledge production that shape the system of “Culture” which has been arguably the greatest epoch of our civilization. The discernible and increasing importance of nativity and indigeneity in India and elsewhere has underscored the urgency of framing the major contemporary issues and debates that constitute this field. This book locates the marginalized/alternative narratives in society on the backdrop of social oppression and exclusion. Subjects include but are not limited to oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, and the arts. In doing so it will take into account the “representative” aspect of literature as it is by “representation” in a text or talk that we assign meaning to diverse groups, social practices, events, etc. This book brings to the fore the voices of the marginalised and the oppressed whereby the reader will be able to recognise the conditions behind the individual voices and thus with empathy as well as knowledge of the true self will they be able to fight the ignorance and prejudice surrounding the lives of the marginalised people. Since discourses surrounding marginality, especially in the Indian context, are few, this book adds to the critical scholarship on marginality studies and thus tries to project the issues to a global audience.The volume will be of great interest to students, researchers, and educators in the fields of literary studies, cultural studies, linguistics, digital humanities, medical humanities, and pedagogy, social sciences, cultural anthropology, literature, and South Asian studies. It will also serve as a valuable resource for cultural preservationists, and general readers.
Introduction
I. Theorizing Representation
1. Representation and Social Reality: A Study of Epidemic Narratives
Dilip K. Das
2. Literary Representation: A Study of Temsula Aos Writings
Kailash C. Baral
II. Rewriting Hi(stories) and Indigeneity
3. Re-claiming the Gorkha: Reading the Song Bir Gorkhali within the Context
of the Indian Gorkha Identity
Arpeata Sharma
4. Bhima Bhoi, Apocalypse and the Context of Nineteenth-Century Odishan
History
Kalidas Misra
5. The Tribal in Sarala Mahabharata
B. N. Patnaik
III. Gendering Religion and Folklore
6. Religious Hypocrisy, Protection Acts and Wandering in Doris Kartinyeris
Kick the Tin and Glenyse Wards Wandering Girl
Hem Raj Bansal
7. Reading Bruhat Tapoyi (Khudurukuni Osa): A Representation of the
Socio-cultural Ethos of the Odia Community
Radharani Nayak and Seemita Mohanty
8. Vyasas Leftovers: Shifting [ Con]texts of Draupadi from Myth to Fiction
Aloka Patel
9. South Indian Rural Female Folk Deity Marriamma
Padmini Rangarajan
IV. Representation and Popular Culture
10. Reimagining Tribal Life through Folktales of Odisha: A Critical Overview
Pramod Kumar Das, Narayan Jena
11. Representation of the Indigenous: Appreciating the Native Canadian
Narratives
Mahesh Kumar Dey
V. Nativizing the Body
12. Inter-generational Rape in Colonial Australia
Soumya Sangita Sahoo
13. Chronicled Realities: Representation of Illness in Selected Illness
Narratives
Snigdha Subhrasmita
VI. Pedagogy of Indigenous Wisdom
14. Folk Wisdom and Ecological Approach: Indigenous Ecologies and the Binjhal
Way of Life
Anand Mahanand
15. Dalit Literature(s): Pedagogy and its Challenges
D. Murali Manohar
Anand Mahanand is a Professor at EFL University, Hyderabad. He has developed materials for EFLU, IGNOU, MANUU and Dr BRAOU, Hyderabad. His important publications include English for Academic and Professional Skills, Folktales for Pleasure Reading and Literature for Language Skills.
Amith Kumar P. V. (Dr.) is a Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and India Studies at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. He has been a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Portland State University, Oregon, USA, from August 2007 to June 2008, and DAAD Visiting Fellow at Technical University, Dresden, Germany from April 2015 to July 2015. His book titled Bakhtin and Translation Studies: Theoretical Extensions has garnered much critical acclaim.
Monali Sahu Pathange (Dr.) works as an Assistant Professor of English at Mahindra University, Hyderabad. Her areas of research include Graphic Narratives, Literatures from the Global South and Energy Humanities. Her paintings have featured as the cover pages of Lokaratna which is a UGC registered, peer- reviewed international e-journal of Folklore Foundation, India which is in collaboration with World Oral Literature Project, Cambridge University.
