Masculinizing women
A Study of Demonic Women and the Politics of Transgression in Garo, Mizo, Lepcha Folklores and Songs
Ethnicity, folklore, gender reversals, India, kinship, Masculinity studies, Masculinizing women, narratology, North East IndiaBy: DEBASHREE SINHA, KALINDI SHARMA – The paper attempts to understand the reconfiguring of mainstream gender specificities in tribal songs, myths and folklores of the hills of the Northeast. We intend to understand figure of the demonic/liberated/ women artists in folklores and songs of tribal communities of the hills. We begin with Mizo women poets…