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Christian World Imprints Tribal Literature Theology & Methodology Reading Folklore For Developing Tribal Theological Hermeneutics And Literary Criticism-Hardbound by Dr M Maisuangdibou
Tribal episteme in general and literature, philosophy, worldview, and theology in particular represent an emerging voice in the Indian and world literary scenes. Tribal literature is unique of the unique due to its very nature as communitarian, land-centred, egalitarian, resistant, outspoken, and shared aesthetic values. It is eco-friendly, pastoral, mystical, nondualistic, essential unity of all realities, and spiritual-mythical conscious. This literature is the voice of the tribal people on their lives, cultures, worldviews, and religions. This book attempts to write and develop hermeneutical tools and literary criticism of Tribal literature. It is a methodological exploration by reading tribal myths and worldviews. The book wrestles with several questions and issues on tribal literature: What is tribal literature? How to formulate tribal hermeneutics and literary criticism? How to systematize or methodize traditional tribal interpretational norms? How the self and the community are connected in tribal literature? How to read text(s) from a woman’s perspective? How to fuse the diverse horizons? And how to liberate and construct the identity and spirituality of the tribal communities in the (post)modern context? This volume asserts that tribal literature is communitarian, mostly folk and oral, liberative, transformative, eco-centred, open-ended, flux, and plurisignal.