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Questions Of Identity In Assam: Location, Migration, Hybirdity

by Nandana Dutta
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788132105114
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
  • Publisher: Sage Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 308
  • Original Price: INR 1195.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 490 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / General

Questions of Identity in Assam: Location, Migration, Hybridity addresses the identity problem in Assam, keenly affected as it is, by the realities of migration and hybridity. The book provides an overview of these issues as they are reflected in the region, and covers the period from the conclusion of the Assam Movement till the present.

The Assam Movement spawned a culture of violence which led to the emergence of insurgent outfits in the state. This resulted in the naturalization of violence as a part of everyday living. From this vantage point, the book offers a reading of identity as determined by the anxiety surrounding the presence of the migrants. In this book, the issue of migration is seen through the perspective of the society that receives the migrants and defines itself through a negative response to the other.

Nandana Dutta was born in Shillong (erstwhile capital of Assam) and educated at Shillong and Guwahati. She received M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Gauhati University, Assam (India). She is currently teaching at the Department of English, Gauhati University. She has earlier taught at Dibrugarh University (1990–91) and at Handique Girls’ College, Guwahati (1987–90). She has published essays on issues like identity, ethnic diversity, location and theory, and Assam and modernity in journals like Journal of Contemporary Thought (JCT), Interventions, Global South, and Journeys, and in collections like Beyond Counter-Insurgency (2008). Her areas of interest include American Studies, Women’s Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Assam and Modernity, Terror and Ethics, Location and Theory, and English Studies in the Northeast. She has edited, with an introduction, a volume of translated folk tales from the various tribal groups of Assam, titled Mothers, Daughters and Others (forthcoming). She received the Katha Prize for Translation from Assamese in 1999.

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