Call for Publications: Book on (De) fining Paradoxes: The Writings from North East India-ISBN Number

Call For Research Articles

With the dominant depiction of terror, fear, insurgency and identity crisis, Northeastern literature ruminates over the panorama of feelings of estrangement and marginalization of the people. But beneath this veneer lies the aboriginal treatment of its folklore, natural scenic beauty and mythology tinged with animistic tradition of the region. The writings of the emerging writers like Robin Ngangom, Mitra Phukan, Mamang Dai, Temsula Ao attempt to homogenize the feelings and culture of the people of this region which primarily appears to be heterogeneous in nature.

The recent writings of the region encapsulate a landscape of numbing turmoil, political misunderstanding, and unrelenting government apathy coupled with the enigma of the dysphoria of their existence. Literature from the North-East is the outcome of the mindscape which harbours contrary feelings and notions, natural scenic beauty, age-old traditions along with the challenges emerged from the implementation of government policies and their impetus to the creative zeal of the young minds.

These writings bear ideas of an outcry of identity being strangulated coupled with the crisis of being born to a land made alien. Overpowering such tales of agony, these writings resonate with the music and rhythm of its exotic, strange yet unique culture. Indeed, these writings are the confluence of the vibrant odour of refreshing scenic beauty and the charm of mythical allusions abounding in the aura of their primeval psyche. The literature from the North-east emerges as interplay of a fine synthesis between the harsh realities of the duality of their existence and the rhythm of the simplicity of the raw folk culture, which it exhibits. However, such tales of frenzy merge with the divinity of their natural settings as if to compensate for the rising smog of violence and disturbances, submerging it within the spectrum of its mystifying embrace.

The literature of the North-east palpitates with the venomous expression of the people, who feel rejected, harassed and subjugated in the hands of their own countrymen. Almost like a victim of the imperialist order, the reluctance of the Main-land Indians to cope with their (north-easterners) exotic differences as natural in a multi-cultural situation have emanated sparks of violence and accentuated the duality of their existence. Any North-easterner would sarcastically consider this to be a hiccup in the process of the most bragged, vaunted and illusory ideas of national integration. Easterine Iralu, a Naga poet and author of great repute, harangues “Let media stop defining the North East by the conflicts going on there. Let media focus on ordinary people and their life. Let exorticisation of North East stop”. These lines echo the intermediate state of a North-Easterner as they plunge into the gloom of being a part of a state of limbo where the stigma of the “other” has become their destiny.

The dominant cultural discourses have defined the North-easterner as primitive. But the question which every North-easterner would vouch on is why there is a necessity to blend
into the standards of a particular framework and transform themselves to legitimize their Indian identity. A North-easterner seems to hopelessly pine for a tryst with destiny and not become what Franz Fanon said, “The black soul is a white man’s artifact”. Divided between the threshold of this state of limbo, utter disillusionment and culturally rich, diversified tradition, they release lines with layered meanings and consciousness.

In order to perfectly capture the tumultuous dynamics, beautifully woven in their writings,insightful, unpublished research oriented papers are invited for publication in an edited volume with an ISBN. Guidelines for the submission of paper are as follows:

I. Only electronic submission via email will be accepted for publication.
II. File must be in Microsoft Word format (Preferably Word 2016)
III. Paper size: A4. Font and Size: Times New Roman 12, the title must be in 14 point size, bold.
IV. Text of the paper : Justified
V. Spacing: One and half margin: 1 inch in all four sides.
VI. Word limit: 3500 to 4500 words including work cited / bibliography.
VII. Abstract: Not more than 250 words.
VIII. Keywords: 5 to 8.
IX. The authors must strictly follow MLA 7th edition in their papers.
X. Each manuscript must bear a self-declaration signifying its originality and that it has not been published or sent for publication elsewhere.
XI. A brief-bio note of 150 words of the respective authors (name, postal address,designation, affiliation, specialization, mail id, contact no. etc.) should be attached towards the end of the paper.
XII. Manuscript must be written in English.

The papers submitted should evince serious academic work contributing to the unexplored vistas of innovative learning tempered with critical analysis.

Selection ProcedureAll submissions will be sent for blind peer reviewing. Final selection will be made only if the papers are approved by the referees. The details of the selection of your paper will be intimated to you telephonically or on your email. All contributors are counseled to keep a copy of their submission with them. Each contributor will get a free complimentary copy from editors.

Plagiarism AlertContributors are advised to abide by the austere academic ethics with respect to acknowledgement of original ideas from others. It will be the writers’ lone accountability for the lapse in originality. Neither editors nor publishers will be responsible for it.
The order of the content must be as per the following sequence:
1. Title page with the authors name and institutional details
2. Abstract
3. Keywords
4. Main body of the text
5. Works cited
6. Declaration and Bio note

The last date of submission: 25thMay, 2018
Acceptance or rejection of the paper will be intimated after a blindfold review within a month.
Authors are requested to submit their paper to: northeastwritings@gmail.com

Editors:

Dhananjay Tripathi	Janmejay Kumar Tiwari
PhD, NET,	PhD, NET,
Assistant Professor	Lecturer Department of
Humanities and Social Sciences	Directorate of Education
National Institute of Technology Sikkim	Government of NCT, Delhi

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