NORTH EAST INDIA STUDIES PROGRAMME
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Writing Outside the Box
Easterine Kire
Author and Poet
Naga writing, be it fiction or non-fiction, has undergone a terrible period of being defined by the Indo-Naga conflict. In the eighties and nineties, and even in the millennium, writing that did not feature some aspect of the conflict was deemed irrelevant by certain publishers and in turn, by the academic circles. This morbid obsession with the conflict and especially the violence generated by it has suppressed and tried to dictate literary writing with its demands and expectations.
This widespread malaise of only expecting Naga and Northeast writers to write only out of conflict related themes has been very damaging for the growth of literature in the whole of the NE region. The struggle to write outside the box has met with resistance but I feel it’s very important to concentrate on the other realities of the Naga world in order to capture a comprehensive view of the Naga world-view.
DATE: January 09, Tuesday, 2018
TIME: 3:30 p.m. onwards
VENUE: Committee Room, School of Social Sciences - I, JNU
ALL ARE INVITED