Traversing the “Margins,” Interrogating the Center
A Critical Rereading of Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11677359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bharti Arora (0000-0003-2753-489X, Department of English, Tagore Government Arts and Science College, Puducherry, India, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 3-19 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-9527 • E-ISSN: 2573-9476 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02759527.2019.1593751 |
| OpenAlex | W2942844111 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
Reading Temsula Ao’s collection of short stories, These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone (2006), this article aims to establish how violence against women in Nagaland and by extension northeastern India is not simply an offshoot of militancy and militarization, but is deeply embroiled in and betrays the gendered contexts of the nation-state. The article locates Ao’s text within the various socio-political processes which have affected Nagamese people’s everyday negotiations with the state. It does so by dwelling on official reports on the AFSPA and northeastern India, data from government reports, and sociological texts, illuminating in an interdisciplinary manner, microhistorical textures of individual lives that inhabit the frontier zones of the nation state. The article highlights the patriarchal biases inherent in the conception and construction of the official reports, political processes, and commentaries which aggravate the gendered contexts of women’s lives in myriad ways. It further illustrates how the contours of the cultural nation, imaginatively constructed by the author, problematize the sovereign and limited boundaries of the nation state
Cartography · Center (category theory · Extension (predicate logic · Geography · Political science · Reading (process · Traverse · Computer Science · History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |