• ISBN13: 9789390514373
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: General Books
• Publisher: Zubaan
• Publisher Imprint: Zubaan
• Publication Date: June 7, 2021
• Pages: 275
• Original Price: 1200.0 INR
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 200 grams

Homewards is a multi-genre anthology that challenges presumptions of home, the idea of homeland and the nation. Writing about home, whether one’s own, or even imagining it in some form or the other is an act of confronting one’s vulnerability. Homes, whether metaphoric or real, are necessarily messy worlds that collide and telescope into each other. This collision is inevitable, as the geographical boundaries of home often intersect and overlap. This anthology upends the idea of home as a unit of stability, familiarity and familiality emptying out its significance as a place of nostalgic refuge that one can always return to. The ostensibly common universal idea of home is unhinged by conditions of violence that underpin relations. The anthology illuminates how the political climate as well as geographical sites transform homes. How can we re-imagine home when its significance as a space and place of refuge loses meaning? Homewards engages with the boundaries and constraints imposed by messy cartographies and attempts to evoke a poetics of space through the act of writing.

CONTRIBUTORS: Agastya Thapa | Amorette Lyngwa | Amrapali Basumatary | Bhagwati Prasad | Gayatri Thangjam | Janice Pariat | Kumam Davidson Singh | Lapdiang Artimai Syiem | Ma Thida | Mleki Thungon | Mamang Dai | Mouma Mag | Pandora | Parismita Singh | Prashansa Gurung | Priyadarshini Moirangthem | Rubani Yumkhaibam | Rongnyoo Lepcha | Mongfing Lepcha | Shalim Hussain | Soibam Haripriya | Thej Yhome | Vishü Rita Krocha

SOIBAM HARIPRIYA is a poet, her poems have appeared in anthologies such as A Map Called Home (2018), Centrepiece (Zubaan, 2017), 40 Under 40: An Anthology of Post-Globalization Poetry (2016). Some of her poems have been included in Muse India (May-June 2019) issue, Poetry at Sangam (July 2019) and in Indian Literature, the bi-monthly journal of Sahitya Akademi. She is presently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent University, Belgium.