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ABSTRACT
Theorization of cultural and political issues of Northeast of India often creates a disengagement from the actual cultural performances produced in the region. This unique geo-cultural place is sometimes homogenized. In actuality, it is the home of diverse socio-cultural practices and performances. In the context of globalization, deforestation, Christianization, other internal clashes and external influences, material bodies, here, are continuously being rewritten in socio-cultural sphere. Non-representational theory considers poetry as an effective mode of exhibiting the virtual multiplicity of the nonrepresentational world. This paper will focus on exploring the corpus of Northeast Indian English poetry that focuses on social practices and bodily experiences to interpret the entire cultural flow of everyday life. As Non-representational Theory positions ‘affect’ as a central issue to individual and collective disposition in constituting the affective political discourse, this paper will also indicate some political imperatives by advancing a politics of hope in the realm of socio-political sphere.
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Notes
1. Yeats, “Among School Children”.
2. Thrift, “Nonrepresentational Theory,” 8.
3. Krishnaswamy. Murali, “Talking of Assam”.
4. Thrift, “Nonrepresentational Theory,” 2.
5. Ibid., 5.
6. Ngangom, Time’s Crossroads, 17.
7. Ibid.
8. Ngangom, Dancing Earth, 124.
9. Ibid., 86.
10. Ibid., 91.
11. Ngangom, Dancing Earth
12. Ibid.
13. Thrift, “Nonrepresentational Theory,” 10.
14. “These rivers are Deeply Moving”, originally written by Yumlembam Ibomcha, translated by Robin S. Ngangom, Dancing Earth, 127.
15. Pred, Onflow, 11.
16. Thrift, “Nonrepresentational Theory,” 8.
17. Latour, 238.
18. Ngangom, Dancing Earth, 89.
19. Ibid.
20. Misra, Oxford Anthology, 2.
21. Ibid.
22. Latour, 1992, 281.
23. Ngangom, Dancing Earth, 94.
24. Latour, 238.
25. Thrift, “Nonrepresentational Theory,” 22.
26. Nongkynrih, The yearning of Seeds, 90.
27. Mishra, Oxford Anthology, 22.
28. Thrift, “Nonrepresentational Theory,” 8.
29. Ao, Once Upon A Life, Preface, vii-ix.
30. From the title of “The Art of Not Being Governed: An anarchist history of Upland Southeast Asia”, 2009.
31. Thrift, “Nonrepresentational Theory,” 2.
32. Ibid., 19.
33. Ibid.
34. Fortun, Advocacy after Bhopal, 351.
35. Ao, Grace.
36. Thrift, “Nonrepresentational Theory,” 20.
37. Ngangom, Dancing Earth, 100.
38. Thrift, 22.
39. Miyazaki, “Economy of dreams,” 147–72.
40. Nongkynrih, The Yearning of Seeds, 88.
41. Das, Conflict and Peace, 11.
42. Ibid.
43. Kashyap, Aruni. “Fake Boots”.
44. See note 35 above.
45. See note 36 above.
46. Thrift, “Nonrepresentational Theory,” 26.
47. See note 40.
48. Ngangom, Dancing Earth, 86.
49. Dai, Mamang. “The Wind and the Rain”.
50. Nongkynrih, The Yearning of Seeds, 12.
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Amrita Bhattacharyya
Amrita Bhattacharyya is an Assistant Professor at Amity Institute of English Studies and Research in Amity University, Kolkata. She has been pursuing Ph.D from the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Burdwan. Her research interests involve Aesthetic Studies, Postmodern Studies, Myth Studies and Poetry. Apart from her academic activities, she regularly involves herself with creative writings.