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MAGIC AND TERROR IN EASTERINE KIRES ECOLOGICAL FICTION: Indigenous Naga Ecofeminism and Conservation Ethics

Title
MAGIC AND TERROR IN EASTERINE KIRES ECOLOGICAL FICTION: Indigenous Naga Ecofeminism and Conservation Ethics
Creator
Yhome, Lucy Keneikhrienuo; Mudaliar, Meghna Christina
Description
Indigenous women across the globe are front-line environmental activists implementing sustainable living practices and conservation through their activism and narratives. Indigenous women writers from Nagaland dominate published creative work from the region, making creative writing a space of resistance and representation. Native or Indigenous knowledge systems revolve around ecocultural practices of sustainability and conservation ethics. The Tenyimia worldview of the Angami Nagas of Nagaland opens up possibilities of ecological ethics and sustainable living through its knowledge systems. A minority Indigenous community in the Northeast region of India, the Angami Nagas represent a worldview that offers sustainable living practices and means of forest conservation through narratives that incorporate magic and terror. Easterine Kire, a renowned writer from Nagaland, has revived the eco-culture of the community through her representation of the Tenyimia worldview, offering insights into Indigenous ecofeminist views through her narratives, which she terms Peoplestories.' The present chapter investigates how magic and terror in Easterine Kires fiction represent forms of Indigenous knowledge that help define ecological ethics. The study applies an Indigenous ecofeminist approach to Easterine Kires work which invokes magic and terror through forest spirits, river spirits, and environmental legends such as the Tekhumevi, or were-tiger, to offer a re-imagination of the ecological spaces traditionally reflected through the communitys oral narratives. 2025 selection and editorial matter, Ina C. Seethaler and Tripthi Pillai; individual chapters, the contributors.
Source
The Routledge Companion to Global Womens Writing;pp.213-224
Date
01-01-2025
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Coverage
Yhome L.K., Department of English and Cultural Studies, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Mudaliar M.C., Christ University, India
Rights
Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library
Relation
ISBN: 978-104035365-3; 978-103243105-5;
Format
online
Language
English
Type
Book chapter

Citation

Yhome, Lucy Keneikhrienuo; Mudaliar, Meghna Christina, “MAGIC AND TERROR IN EASTERINE KIRES ECOLOGICAL FICTION: Indigenous Naga Ecofeminism and Conservation Ethics,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed June 19, 2026, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/25180.

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