ABSTRACT
This article is part of a Book Forum review of Sanjib Baruah’s book In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast (2020). The Book Forum consists of individual commentaries on this text by five interested scholars, followed by a response by the author. The article may be read individually or alongside the other contributions to the Forum, which together constitute a comprehensive discussion of the themes and arguments in the book.
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Notes
1 Wenzel defines quarantine of the imagination as the ‘inability or refusal to imagine across geographic, temporal, or experiential divides’ (18).
2 Mikhail Bakhtin (Citation1996) defines chronotope as the interconnectedness of time and space in narrative whereby ‘time takes flesh’ and space becomes ‘charged and responsive to the movements of time … ’ (84).
3 ‘Frontierized’ refers to the juridical processes that produce frontiers within a nation-space.
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Amit R. Baishya
Amit R. Baishya is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Besides Northeast Indian Studies, he also works at the intersections of postcolonial studies, animal studies and the Anthropocene. He translates fiction from Assamese to English.