Keeper of Stories: Critical Readings of Easterine Kire's Novels

With the visible growth of scholarship in the Northeast of India across disciplines, there is also an increasing need for critical materials. And adding to the wide range of research interests on the region, literary studies, borderland studies and inter-disciplinary studies have gained momentum. This volume makes an obvious and modest attempt at exploring the emerging literary and cultural studies. However, given the enormity of the literary tradition, a singular focus on the works of Easterine Kire has been considered and that only on her novels. Among the many contemporary writers of the region she stands as a pioneer of writings in English, and of late her works have gained substantial academic attention from different universities across the country. This of course is partly propelled by the growing fascination in the Anglophone literature from the region and fthe fresh perspective that one derives from these writings because they offer a reimagination of the Northeast beyond the much-hyped isssues of conflict and violence.