Book contents
- Nature and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Nature and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Development
- Chapter 7 Romantic Nature
- Chapter 8 The Sublime
- Chapter 9 Toward a Transatlantic Philosophy of Nature
- Chapter 10 Indigenous Naturecultures
- Chapter 11 Postcolonial Nature
- Chapter 12 Extinction
- Chapter 13 Nature in the Anthropocene
- Part III Applications
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 10 - Indigenous Naturecultures
Ecocosmopolitanism in Northeast Indian Poetry
from Part II - Development
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2022
- Nature and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Nature and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Development
- Chapter 7 Romantic Nature
- Chapter 8 The Sublime
- Chapter 9 Toward a Transatlantic Philosophy of Nature
- Chapter 10 Indigenous Naturecultures
- Chapter 11 Postcolonial Nature
- Chapter 12 Extinction
- Chapter 13 Nature in the Anthropocene
- Part III Applications
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
In “Indigenous Naturecultures,” Rayson K. Alex utilizes Ursula K. Heise’s notion of ecocosmopolitanism as a nexus of the local and global to analyze specific place-based understandings of the fluid relationship between nature and culture in the works of Indigenous poets from Northeast India. The chapter includes detailed interpretations of the work of Temsula Ao, Robin Singh Ngangom, Anupama Basumatary, and Mamang Dai in order to explore how Indigenous identity in Northeast India is often forged through the conflict between local and global forces. Drawing on the work of Karen Barad, the chapter suggests that Northeast Indian Indigenous ideas of culture are sacromorphic and rooted in local engagement with nature.
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- Nature and Literary Studies , pp. 194 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022