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Centrepiece: Women's Writing and Art from Northeast India

Centrepiece: Women’s Writing and Art from Northeast India

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ISBN 9789385932410|Paperback|215 pages|2018|Zubaan Books

Centrepiece brings together twenty-one women from across the northeastern states of India to reflect on the personal nature and meanings of work through their own words and pictures.

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ISBN 9789385932410|Paperback|215 pages|2018|Zubaan Books

Centrepiece brings together twenty-one women from across the northeastern states of India to reflect on the personal nature and meanings of work through their own words and pictures.

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Though the northeastern region of India contains eight ethnically diverse, politically complex, and historically different states, it is often homogenised into a problematic category called “the northeast.” Many stereotype it as a region of conflict clouding India’s periphery. The diversity of the region, its rich histories, its many literatures, and its women—who run businesses, fight for peace, and battle their men as rights-bearers—all of these admirable elements of the region tend to disappear in the face of such stereotyping.

Centrepiece brings together twenty-one women from across the northeastern states of India to reflect on the personal nature and meanings of work through their own words and pictures. Whether they are brewing beer, carrying cow dung on their heads, or selling food in the streets, these women confront, love, reject, and laugh at their men in myriad ways. Visually stunning, with full-color images, Centrepiece illustrates how traditional tribal art and modern sensibilities can intersect to create a new visual language for these women to share untold stories. They tell their tales here with both gravity and joy, bringing alive their cultures and showing us how to see a fresh perspective of this region and its people.

The book is an anthology of writings and artwork focusing on Northeast women and their work. Gender equality issues, patriarchy, overcoming traditional moulds, tribal feminism all amidst a precarious militarised environment are some of the themes explored. Poetry, essays, artwork, photography..the book seeks to offer the reader “not so much a single, unifying narrative or worldview, rather an invitation to trace a line, through a diverse, complicated and contrary universe,along the wings of an uncertain flight.”

Editor:

Parismita Singh
ISBN:

9789385932410
Binding:

Paperback
Pages:

215
Year of Publication:

2018
Publisher:

Zubaan Books
Edition:

First
Condition:

New
Country of Origin:

India

About the Contributors

Parismita Singh is a graphic artist and writer. She is author of The Hotel at the End of the World and a children’s book, Fat King, Thin Dog.

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