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Tales of Darkness and Light: Soso Tham's The Old Days of the Khasis

Tales of Darkness and Light: Soso Tham's The Old Days of the Khasis

Tham, Soso
Hujon, Janet

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Series: World Oral Literature, Book 9

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1783744685
ISBN13: 9781783744688
Publisher: Open Book Publ S
Published: Apr 25 2018
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Soso Tham (1873-1940), the acknowledged poet laureate of the Khasis of northeastern India, was one of the first writers to give written poetic form to the rich oral tradition of his people.
Poet of landscape, myth and memory, Soso Tham paid rich and poignant tribute to his tribe in his masterpiece The Old Days of the Khasis. Janet Hujon's vibrant new translation presents the English reader with Tham's long poem, which keeps a rich cultural tradition of the Khasi people alive through its retelling of old narratives and acts as a cultural signpost for their literary identity.

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