Literary Cultures of India's Northeast: Naga writings in english / K. B. Veio Pou,

Chapter-1: Voices from India's Northeast;
The Northeast: India's Post-colonial "Other";
Emergence of writings in English;
Chapter-2: Naga writings in English;
The arrival of Naga writings;
Situating the Nagas: History, Polity, Society and Culture;
Chapter-3: The oral tradition of the Nagas and the lived reality;
And they began to 'forget': Impact of westernisation and Christianisation on Naga culture;
Oral tradition and the new literary imagination;
Easterine Kire's A Naga Village remembered: re-visiting the old world/religion;
Temsula Ao's Songs From the Other Life: Re-drafting history;
re-creating the folk: Tenyidie folk poems;
Chapter-4: The Naga Nation: Between hope and despair;
Beginning of an 'imagined' nation;
debates on Naga Nationhood and identity;
Weaving history into songs: articulate angst through poetry;
Laments of a people: Temsula Ao's these hills called home;
Living on the edge: Easterine Kire's bitter wormwood and life on hold;
Chapter-5: Charting a space of their own: Naga women and writing;
Gender-talk: Women in Naga society;
Easterine Kire's A terrible matriarchy: Decoding a woman's "Mission" in life;
Violence against women in times of conflict: Nini Lungalang's "child of fortune" and Temsula Ao's "The last song"

This book is a significant contribution to our understanding of India's Northeast, especially Nagaland, which works all the better because it explores the literary works of Naga English writers, giving us insights not possible in mere historical or political; or anthropological accounts. Never losing sight of the literary, this book explores the impact of historical situations, the tides of physical and cultural violence both colonial and postcolonial, on the Naga people. A book that should be on the shelf of anyone interested in the North East, or on the impact of trauma on any society.
The book provides a cultural history of the Nagas presenting the webs of relation between various genres and styles of narrative, between the print and the oral, of acute social and political experiences, notions of time, and the place of language in articulating what it means to be a Naga in such contexts, which finds an excellent interdisciplinary blend in the book. Through its study of literary imaginations and the experiences of reality and modernization they contain, this book is undoubtedly a major contribution in understanding literary cultures of Northeast India.