Exploring the Dominant Themes in Contemporary North-East Indian English Poetry: A Detailed Analysis of Selected Poems

Abstract

As North-East India is full of different ethnic and religious groups having diverse cultures, customs, traditions and beliefs, the literature produced from the region is highly influenced by these aspects. Therefore, the literature emerged in the region is inspired by the clash of cultures, sense of cultural loss and its recovery because of the insurgent activities taken place in the land in the name of ethnicity, language etc. The issues of continuing immigrant migration, the quest for identity, betrayal in terms of political equality, injustice, negligence, cultural imagination, culture and tradition Vs modernity, nature and ecology, violence perpetrated by various militant outfits etc. are some of the dominant themes found in the contemporary poetry that is produced from North-East India. In this paper those themes will be manifested by concentrating on select poems, either written in English or their English translations, by the poets from North-East India.