Author: Caroline Marak
Translator: Caroline Marak
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 176
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8126013729
Description
This anthology of Garo literature contains songs, folktales, ritual chants, traditional oral poetry, songs about country life, samples of written poetry and a play. The contents have been carefully chosen to give an idea about the oral traditions of the Garos as well as their written literature.
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. They have rarely been translated into English or an Indian language as a representation of tribal imagination.
In order to meet the long felt need for bringing out a systematic series of India’s tribal literature, Sahitya Akademi has established a Project of Indian Literature in Tribal Languages and Oral Traditions.
The editor of Garo Literature volume, Professor Caroline Marak is a well known scholar of Agro culture and literature.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
MYTHS AND FOLK TALES
Creation of the world
Rocks and Plants
How Poison was First Obtained
A Mouse and a Fox
The Peacock
The Elephant
Two Sisters Keep watch in the Jhum Field
The Wild Dove
Tengton
POETRY
Flora W. Momin
Harara
Jenden Ch. Marak
Alack!
Balam D. Sangma
The story of Kresilina
Harendra W. Marak
A Siroka
L. R. Marak
In the Village of Dikki
D.K. Sangma
Song on Inaugurtion of a House
HOWARD DENISON MOMIN
The Voice of the Garos
The Song of the Magpie
Surrender to My Land
New Year
I will Remember You
EVELYN R. MARAK
The Rose
I will Still Love You
My Sweetheart
The Delight of the Farmer
Mother
My Lamp
July 16, 1918
Jonmoni D. Shira
When?
Daisy
Dream World
The Dove
I, the Woman
DRAMA
Keneth Momin
Family