Representation

Anand Mahanand is Professor at EFL University, Hyderabad. He has developed materials for EFLU, IGNOU, MANUU, and Dr BRAOU, Hyderabad. His important publications include English for Academic and Professional Skills, Folktales for Pleasure Reading, and Literature for Language Skills.Amith Kumar P.V. (Dr) is Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and India Studies at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. He has been Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Portland State University, Oregon, USA, from August 2007 to June 2008, and DAAD Visiting Fellow at the Technical University, Dresden, Germany, from April 2015 to July 2015. His book titled Bakhtin and Translation Studies: Theoretical Extensions has garnered much critical acclaim.Monali Sahu Pathange (Dr) works as Assistant Professor of English at Mahindra University, Hyderabad. Her areas of research include graphic narratives, literatures from the Global South, and energy humanities. Her paintings have featured as the cover pages of Lokaratna, which is a UGC registered, peer-reviewed international e-journal of Folklore Foundation, India, which is in collaboration with the World Oral Literature Project, Cambridge University.

• IntroductionI. Theorizing Representation1. Representation and Social Reality: A Study of Epidemic NarrativesDilip K. Das2. Literary Representation: A Study of Temsula Ao’s WritingsKailash C. BaralII. Rewriting Hi(stories) and Indigeneity3. Re-claiming the ‘Gorkha’: Reading the Song Bir Gorkhali within the Context of the Indian Gorkha IdentityArpeata Sharma4. Bhima Bhoi, Apocalypse and the Context of Nineteenth-Century Odishan HistoryKalidas Misra5. The Tribal in Sarala MahabharataB. N. PatnaikIII. Gendering Religion and Folklore6. Religious Hypocrisy, Protection Acts and Wandering in Doris Kartinyeri’s Kick the Tin and Glenyse Ward’s Wandering GirlHem Raj Bansal7. Reading Bruhat Tapoyi (Khudurukuni Osa): A Representation of the Socio-cultural Ethos of the Odia CommunityRadharani Nayak and Seemita Mohanty8. ‘Vyasa’s Leftovers’: Shifting [Con]texts of Draupadi from Myth to FictionAloka Patel9. South Indian Rural Female Folk Deity — MarriammaPadmini RangarajanIV. Representation and Popular Culture10. Reimagining Tribal Life through Folktales of Odisha: A Critical OverviewPramod Kumar Das, Narayan Jena11. Representation of the Indigenous: Appreciating the Native Canadian NarrativesMahesh Kumar DeyV. Nativizing the Body12. Inter-generational Rape in Colonial AustraliaSoumya Sangita Sahoo13. Chronicled Realities: Representation of Illness in Selected Illness NarrativesSnigdha SubhrasmitaVI. Pedagogy of Indigenous Wisdom14. Folk Wisdom and Ecological Approach: Indigenous Ecologies and the Binjhal Way of LifeAnand Mahanand15. Dalit Literature(s): Pedagogy and its ChallengesD. Murali Manohar