Description

The intersectional issue of language, identity and gender has been a potent factor in determining the developmental indices of a particular region especially necessary for assessing the multidimensional women narratives of the North East India often muffled by mainland parameters of recording misogyny and racism. In literary paradigms ‘lived experiences’ in quest for identity are intersectional in nature in correlation to the observed practices of deterrent social forces that make women subservient in discourses of power. Gender interventions in India’s North East cannot be studied in isolation without deliberations on the complex socio-political interface of language, culture, ecology and economy. This book makes a partial attempt to address some of these issues through the elaborate editorial chapter and the fifteen contributory essays spread out through the two parts of the book divided as i) Society and Culture & ii) Ecology and Economy. Overall the book aims at laying a brick for carving an eco-feminist base to the study of gender issues of the North East from an interdisciplinary platform of intersecting literature, ecology and social sciences.

About The Author

Dr. Sabreen Ahmed has received her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in Feb 2013. Her Thesis is entitled “Muffled Voices: The Zenana in the Fiction of Muslim Women Writers from South Asia” under the guidance of Prof Makarand Paranjape. She has done her post- graduation from the University of Delhi (2005) and graduation from Cotton College, Guwahati (2003). Her area of interest is Gender studies, South Asian English Writing and Contemporary Theory. She has published academic papers in reputed journals and in creative writing she writes reviews, articles, fiction, and poems for The Thumbprint, The Assam Tribune, Café Dissensus, Feminism in India, The Citizen etc. She has an anthology of poems entitled Soliloquies and also an edited book on Seminar Proceedings captioned Indian Fiction in English and the Northeast to her credit. Currently she teaches in the Department of English, Nowgong College, Nagaon, (Assam) as an Assistant Professor and also voluntarily runs her own online literary magazine named Provincialcreatives.wordpress.com.