Author : Manjeet Baruah
Release : 2020-11-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Frontier Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Frontier Cultures write by Manjeet Baruah. This book was released on 2020-11-29. Frontier Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study of Assamese literature has so far been in terms of the history of the Assamese language. This book is a history of the narratives written in Assamese language and its relation to the process of region formation. The literature dealt with ranges from pre-colonial chronicles, ballads and drama to modern genres of fiction and critical writing in Assamese language. Taking the Brahmaputra valley and Assamese literature as case studies, the author attempts to link literature, its nature and use, to processes of region formation, arguing that such a study needs to take the context of historical geography into consideration. The book views region formation in north-east India as a dialectical process, that is, the dialectic between the shared and the distinct in inter-group and community relations. It borrows an anthropological approach to study written narratives and cultures so as to locate such narratives in specific processes of region formation.