Author: Laltluangliana Khiangte
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Utpal Kumar Basu
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 2012
Language: Bengali
Pages: 196
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788126040780
Description
This volume presents different genres of Mizo songs and folk-tales representing the uniqueness and salient features of the Mizo-folk . The main aim of this work is to highlight the uniqueness and salient features of Mizo folk-literature comprising folk narratives and traditional proverbs, sayings, songs, tales, nursery rhymes, riddles, war slogans, sacrificial chants etc.. The examples of written literature, mainly song and poems, are included in this volume. The dialects and languages spoken by tribals in India are very large in number. The literary compositions in most of them have survived in oral form though some tribal languages have taken to writing as a means of recording literary compositions. Conventionally, they have been perceived as mere anthropological curiosity, or at best a source for oral history.
Contents
Foreword Introduction FOLK SONGS AND CONTEMPORARY POEMS Folk Songs Early Compositions Devotional Songs Nature Poems Love Songs and Contemporary Poems FOLK TALES Chhura: Undisputed hero of Mizo Folk Tales Memorable Accounts of Men folk Tales of women Protagonists Tales of Love and Compassion Animal Tales