Mamang Dai’s The Black Hill as a Postcolonial Novel

Authors

  • M.Fathima Anjum PG & Research Department of English, Jamal Mohamed College (Autonomous),Tiruchirappalli – 620020

Keywords:

Postcolonialism, identity, tradition, colonialism, cultural conflict, tribes and culture.

Abstract

Mamang Dai was a North–East Indian writer in English. She explored the culture and the history  of Arunachal Pradesh and its tribe group. This was her last novel published in 2014. It is about British colonialism. Through this novel she reveals that the tribal people are protective and  possessive after realizing that the lands and everything were invaded by them. This work speaks  about the love story of Kajinsha and Gimur of missionary French priests to present the colonial  situation in Arunachal Pradesh

References

Dai, Mamang. The Black Hill. New Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2014.

Hurn, Brian J. and Barry Tomalin. Cross- Cultural Communication: Theory and Practice, U.K: Palgrave, 2013.

Goyal, Anuradha. “The Black Hill by Mamang Dai – Book Review – Anuradha Goyal.” Anuradha Goyal, 13 Nov. 2017, www.anuradhagoyal.com/the-black-hill-mamang-dai.

Published

2024-09-13

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 3 (2024): Jamal Academic Research Journal-An Interdisciplinary (JARJ)

Section

Articles

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