Performing Arun Sarma

Theatricality, Transgression, Transformation

Edited By: Namrata Pathak, Dhurjjati Sarma

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This collection of essays on the life and works of renowned Assamese litterateur Arun Sarma pushes his legacy beyond linguistic and geographical barriers, generating a vibrant community of literary enthusiasts and a new body of knowledge on the theatre of Assam.

This book, a collection of essays on and reviews of the life and works of Arun Sarma, contributes towards generating and sustaining academic engagement with…

This book, a collection of essays on and reviews of the life and works of Arun Sarma, contributes towards generating and sustaining academic engagement with the renowned litterateur of Assam, India, on both national and global platforms. It will push forth his legacy beyond the linguistic and geographical barriers of the Indian state, and develop a congenial environment for generating a new and active reading public—a vibrant community of literary enthusiasts all over the world. The book serves as an extension of the avowed goal of Arun Sarma as a playwright and novelist to rise above barriers of all kinds, resulting in the production of a body of knowledge on theatre of Assam. The book will be of use to academics, students, and research scholars of English literature, writings from North-East India, performance studies, theatre studies, India studies, south Asian cultures, and cultural studies, among others.

Dr Namrata Pathak teaches in the Department of English at North-Eastern Hill University, India. She has an MPhil and a PhD from the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), India. Her books include Trends in Contemporary Assamese Theatre (2015), Women’s Writing from North-East India (2016), Indira Goswami: Margins and Beyond (2022) and a collection of poems titled That’s How Mirai Eats a Pomegranate (2018). She has been a recipient of the FCT-Ford Foundation Library Fellowship and the University Grants Commission Associateship from the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), India. She was Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow-India at SOAS, University of London for the year 2023.

Dr Dhurjjati Sarma is an assistant professor in the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies at Gauhati University, India. He was a production editor at SAGE Publications, New Delhi, and, before that, a research fellow in North East India studies at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi. He is presently engaged in studying the early and modern literatures of Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu from a comparative-cultural perspective.

Arindam Sarma, Nizara Hazarika, Anumadha Sarma, Saba Anish, Saurav Sengupta, Pranjal Sharma Bashishtha, Madan Sarma, Arparna Nath, Sib Sankar Majumder