Ripples of Insurgency: A Reading of The House with a Thousand Stories

Purabi Goswami

doi:10.56062/gtrs.2024.3.5.561

Authors

Purabi Goswami Assistant Professor Dept of English Handique Girls’ College Guwahati

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56062/gtrs.2024.3.5.561

Abstract

The inexorable presence of insurgency has vitiated Assam and the other North-eastern states for a long period of time; but the reality faced by the inhabitants in these areas are represented more sensibly and truthfully by the literature produced by the writers of the North-east. The paper looks at one such depiction by a young writer from Assam, Arun Kashyap in his English novel, The House with a Thousand Stories.

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