Amit Baishya

Bio

Amit R. Baishya is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Contemporary Literature from Northeast India: Deathworlds, Terror and Survival (Routledge, 2018). He is the co-editor of two volumes: Northeast India: A Place of Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Postcolonial Animalities (Routledge, 2019), and two journal special issues: "Planetary Solidarities: Postcolonial Theory, the Anthropocene and the Nonhuman" (Postcolonial Studies, 2022) and "Insides-Outsides: Anglophone Literature from Northeast India" (South Asian Review, 2023). His second monograph Attunement to Others: Multispecies Cohabitation in the Anthropocene is forthcoming in 2026 from Cambridge University Press. He also translated, Jangam (Vitasta, 2018), Debendranath Acharya's novel on the forgotten long march from Burma to India during WWII from Assamese to English.

Contributions

Northeast Indian Literature in Planetary Time: Creation Myths, Zones of Extraction and Anthropocene Heterotemporality in Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih’s Poetics

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Anglophone Literature from the borderland region of Northeast India has a relatively short history with the major works comprising the oeuvre published in the last four decades or so. One of the most visible trajectories in Northeast Indian Anglophone Literature (NIAL) [1] is the reworking of myths and origin stories, especially by writers from indigenous communities. [2] NIAL writers weave myths to explore both deep pasts and contemporary conundrums about community and political identity...

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