UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS with
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Moving Worlds
A Journal of Transcultural Writings
Celebrating the diversity and richness of both local and global transcultural communities
Chotro: Adivasi Voices and Stories
Volume 9 Number 1
Description
This issue draws from one segment of the paper presented at the international conference. Chotro (meaning 'coming together' in the language of the Bhils of central India), which examined the position of indigenous peoples of the 'post' colonial world. The contributions explore the representations of adivasis and their struggle for political, social and cultural survival within India.
- Contents
EDITORIAL
- SHIRLEY CHEW
FICTION
- Tale of Satimata and Devasati
TRANSLATED FROM GUJARATI BY DAHYABHAI VADHU
- MAHASWETA DEVI, Seeds
TRANSLATED FROM BENGALI BY THE AUTHOR
- Tale of Satimata and Devasati
INTERVIEW
- MAHASWETA DEVI, ’Why I Write about Tribals‘
Arranged by Emma Smith from a transcription of an interview
- MAHASWETA DEVI, ’Why I Write about Tribals‘
POETRY
- KANJI PATEL, Come to the Village Fair, May Such Hunger
TRANSLATED FROM GUJARATI BY THE AUTHOR
- VINEET TIWARI, Ulgulaan
TRANSLATED FROM HINDI BY JAYA MEHTA
- KANJI PATEL, Come to the Village Fair, May Such Hunger
ARTICLES
- G.N. DEVY, From The Song of Orpheus
- SHIV VISVANATHAN, Listening to the Pterodactyl
- VIBHA S. CHAUHAN, From Protest to Movement: Adivasi Communities
in History, Society, and Literature
- ESTHER SUKRITI NARJINARI, Weaving Bodo Women’s Identity in
Traditional Folk Songs
- RASHMI SAWHNEY, Cinema and the Adivasis of India
- BRIAN COATES AND EILEEN COATES, Vaacha: Voice and Memory in
the Museum
- ASHA SARANGI, Tribal Languages and Cultural Politics in
Contemporary India
- NILA SHAH, A Study of Contemporary Adivasi Literature of Jharkhand
REVIEWS
- by JAMES GIBBS, BRENDAN NICHOLLS, MARTIN BANHAM
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS