TY - BOOK AU - Devy, G N. AU - Devy, G.N, ed. AU - Davis, Geoffrey V, ed. AU - Chakravarty, K.K, ed. TI - Indigeneity: culture and representation: proceedings of the 2008 Chotro Conference on Indigenous Languages, Culture, and Society SN - 9788125036647 U1 - 305.8 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi PB - Orient Blackswan KW - Indigenous peoples--Social life and customs KW - Literature and society KW - Popular culture KW - Sociolinguistics N1 - 1. Listening to the Pterodactyl Shiv Visvanathan 2. Friends, Indigenes and Others: A German Interjection Gerhard Stilz 3. Popular Culture and Political Violence: The Postcolonial State in Malawi: 1964-1994 Reuben Makayiko Chirambo 4. People-centric Histories of Indigenous Literature: Thoughts on Theory and Praxis Nilanjana Deb 5. Crystallizing Protest into Movement: Adivasi Community in History, Society and Literature Vibba S. Cbauban 6. Myths of the Bondas Anand Mabanand 7. Contemporary Indigenous Literatures in Canada: Healing from Historical Trauma Jo-Ann Episkenew 8. Classical, Modern and Transnational Nahuatl Literatures Gabriel S. Estrada 9. Narrations of HerStories Michaela Moura-Ko^odlu 10. Will They Survive the Margins? Endangered Languages and Oral Traditions in Kenya Mumia Geoffrey Osaaji 11. Udje Dance Songs of Nigeria's Urhobo People Tanure Ojaide 12. Writing about Lives on the Edge: The Naga Imbroglio K. B. Veio Pou 13. Wedded to Life: The Paliyans of Kerala P. J. George 14. The Weaving of Bodo Women's Identity in their Traditional Folk Songs Esther Sukriti Narjinari 15. The Biblical Language Dilemma: The Competing Interests of English vs. Lubusuku Maloba Wekesa 16. Women s Songs: Oral Cultural Expressions among the Zulu People Nompumelelo Zondi Representation and Interpretation 17. Adivasi Literature: An Emerging Consciousness Ramnika Gupta 18. Indigeneity, Visuality and Postcolonial Theory: The Case of the San Brendon Nicholls 19. Steve Chimombo's Epic of the Forest Creatures Pia Thielmann 20. Bessie Head Interpreting the Batswana Anne Fuchs 21. "Come Sing the Uhuru Blues": The Indigenous in the Work of Matsemela Manaka Geoffrey V Davis 22. "Nothing will Remain of this World": Continuity and Creativity in Mohammed Hassan's Twarab Poetry Aisha Schmitt 23. The Loss of a Spirit: Metaphor and Practice in Aymara Decolonization Anders Burman 24. Making Memoiy, Making Poetry: Mind and Imagination in Contemporary Indigenous Australian Literature Estelle Castro 25. Signs and Silences vs. Objective Inquiry: Bicultural Meaning in Journey to the Stone Country Norbert H. Platz 26. Conflicting Mythologies and Identity Building: Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen Cecile Fouache 27. Ethnic Life Writing: The Work of Beatrice Culleton Mosioniers and Yvonne Johnson Cecile Sandten 28. National Catholicism and Cultural Annihilation: Children's Literature in Franco's Spain Isabel Alonso and Marta Ortega 29. Articulating Self: Orality, Community and Colonialism in South India Bhangya Bhukya 30. Interculturality of Tradition and Modernity; Towards Understanding the Tribal Ethos Lachman M. Khubchandani 31. Indigenous Languages and Higher Education in South Africa Sandiso Ngcobo 32. Garma and Beyond: Indigenous Cultural Festivals for Decolonization Peter Phipps 33. Imagining an Adivasi Cinema Rashmi Sawhney 34. Translating Museums Alice Tilcbe ER -