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The newly released publication Homegrown: Anthology of New Writings from Nagaland (2023), brings together an extraordinary range of indigenous writings from across the state. These literary artefacts explore core indigenous concepts such as the relations between land, culture, language and community and the continuities between oral and written forms of expression. From short stories to poetry and prose poems, to personal narratives and academic essays, to allegorical tales and works in translation of local language authors this book celebrates the strength of heritage and the liveliness of innovation. The strength of this book lies in the prioritisation of the voices included, in the honest way these powerful and creative individual voices are introduced and presented with all their complexities, vulnerabilities and identities. Most impressive too, is the mixture of texts and variety of narrative forms which establish simultaneously, an indigenous and a global perspective. Rich in in ....
Our Correspondent Kohima, Aug. 26 (EMN): Author and educator, Dr. Neikehienuo Mepfhu-o, released her second novel ‘Out of the Woods’ in Kohima on Friday. Her debut book ‘My Mother’s Daughter’ won the second Gordon Graham Prize for Naga Literature (2019). “This is a story of a young boy finding his place in a world which is either not ready or yet to understand mental illness. He is exposed to an alternate reality which nobody could understand but himself. A story of trauma, pain, depression, grief and the terrifying aftermath of unresolved feelings, and emotions,” read the summary of the book. Mepfhu-o shared that she started writing her newly released book even before her first novel. After her friend introduced books on mental illness, it changed her perspective on families dealing with mental illness and got interested in exploring Naga society’s perception and outlook on people with mental health issues as well. “However, after I started writin ....