Figurative Ecologies in Northeast India: Reading Easterine Kire’s Novel When the River Sleeps

Dharmendra Baruah

Dharmendra Baruah

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Abstract

English writings from Northeast India have created a space of their own in the literary landscape of contemporary times. Easterine Kire is a noted fiction writer and poet from the Northeast Indian state of Nagaland. Her writings emerge from her nuanced understanding of the lived realities of the people of Nagaland and, interestingly, have a deep resonance of the folklore and oral narratives of Nagaland. This article explores the construction of ecologies in her novel When the River Sleeps (2014) from the perspective of metaphorization and ecological ethics. It examines how the narrative employs ethnic eco-spatial symbolism, which not only accentuates ecological-ethical issues but also foregrounds more meaningful ways to imagine and live with ecologies.

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End Notes

1 Dharmendra K. Baruah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Tezpur College, Assam, India. He is interested in Indian Writings in English, travel writing, literature and environment, colonialism in the Northeast of India and Northeast Indian Anglophone writings. Baruah has contributed papers to a number of national journals and has also edited a few books. He has also completed a research project on the representation of the Northeast region of India in contemporary travel writings.