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September 10, 2025ShodhKosh Journal of Visual and Performing Arts0 citations

Women at the Centre: A Reading of Easterine Kire’s a Terrible Matriarchy

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CSC. R.V. SindhuManonmaniam Sundaranar UniversityABArpita BoseLanguage Science (South Korea)

Key Points

  • The analysis reveals the interconnectedness of three generations of naga women, showcasing their unique roles in society.
  • Key characters include the grandmother, mother, and protagonist Dielieno, representing diverse emotional and psychological depths.
  • Easterine Kire’s work emphasizes the influence of geographical and social backgrounds on the lives and narratives of her characters.
  • The fictional world presented by Kire embodies the dynamics of matriarchy within Naga society, reflecting both challenges and strengths.

Abstract

Women of different ages, of different roles as daughters, mothers and wives; of different geographical, social and familial backgrounds; and of different emotional, psychological dispositions inhabit the fictional world of Easterine Kire, a well-known North-East Indian Naga writer. It can be well noticed that all the actions of her fictional world revolve around her land, women and men of Nagaland. The present paper focusses on the three generations of Naga women: Grandmother, mother and Dielieno, the protagonist of the novel.

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Sindhu et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c1dda954b1d3bfb60fcb65https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i2.2024.6006
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