Representation

Narrative, Indigeneity and Knowledge Construction

Anand Mahanand, Amith Kumar P.V., Monali Sahu Pathange (Herausgeber)

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256 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-27526-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Introduction

I. Theorizing Representation

1. Representation and Social Reality: A Study of Epidemic Narratives

Dilip K. Das

2. Literary Representation: A Study of Temsula Ao’s 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 Kartinyeri’s Kick the Tin and Glenyse Ward’s 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. ‘Vyasa’s 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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.2026
Zusatzinfo	9 Halftones, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-041-27526-9 / 1041275269
ISBN-13	978-1-041-27526-8 / 9781041275268
Zustand	Neuware