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These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War ZoneTemsula Ao 150 pp Pb USD 4 ISBN 8189013718 All Rights Available  Add To Cart
More than half a century of bloodshed has marked the history of the Naga people who live in the troubled northeastern region of India. Their struggle for an independent Nagaland and their continuing search for identity provides the backdrop for the stories that make up this unusual collection. Describing how ordinary people cope with violence, how they negotiate power, and force, how they seek and find safe spaces and enjoyment in the midst of terror, the author details a way of life under threat from the forces of modernization and war. No one –the young, the old, the ordinary housewife, the willing partner, the militant who takes to the gun, and the young woman who sings even as she is being raped–is untouched by the violence. Theirs are the stories that form the subtext of the struggles that lie at the internal faultlines of the Indian nation-state. These are stories that speak movingly of home, country, nation, nationality, identity, and direct the reader to the urgency of the issues that lie at their heart. Temsula Ao is Dean, School of Humanities and Education, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. Give your review shayeen sheikh, on 6-5-2009 wrote: yesterday i read a story from this book: "The Last Song" which also appears in the book "Inner Line". After reading the story i was in state of trauma for a few moments... really that was a heart melting story.... [Top] |