Deracination Of Culture And Conflict In Easterine Kire’s Sky Is My Father: A Naga Village Remembered

Abstract

Easterine Kire is a ‘Naga’ writer who has dexterously illustrated the socio-cultural existence of the Naga people. She has illuminated the distinctiveness of Naga’s oral culture, the folklore, traditional beliefs, and various superstitions predominant in Naga society. This paper examines the novel “Sky is My Father: A Naga Village Remembered”, authored by the esteemed Naga writer Easterine Kire. It seeks to describe the copious ways in which cultural conflicts have nurtured a hybridized culture and to re-examine the history of Nagaland from an insider’s perspective. Cultural dislodgment is a prominent theme in this novel. It analyses that how modernization and colonialism have affected the Naga people of Northeast India. Besides, the article aims to examine about how British colonialism and the spread of Christianity destroyed traditional Naga culture, including its customs, rituals, and sense of community.