Centrepiece
Women’s Writing and Art from Northeast India
Distributed for Seagull Books - Zubaan Books
200 pages
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color illustrations throughout
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9 3/4 x 7 1/4
Review Quotes
ThePrint
“The writing and art manage to delineate the complexities and contradictions associated with the Northeastern identity without exoticising the region or its people. Centrepiece through a wide variety of writings and images brings to the readers, stories of a region which still remains largely absent in the popular imagination.”
Open
“Centrepiece is a gorgeous collection, with page after page of beauty and surprise. What emerges is a heterogeneous series of portraits and worldviews. There is a clear—and admirable—refusal to pander to the non-Northeastern gaze, and so an outsider reader does not suffer from a niggling sense of voyeurism either. Both female experiences and the distinct cultures of the Northeast are given primacy in a rare and rewarding way. There is so much here to enjoy and be educated by.”
Outlook
“Edited by Parismita Singh, the anthology collates diverse perspectives and positions, memories and motifs to convey the idea of women at work in the Northeast. Through visual and word formats, this aesthetic is explored through stories, poems, essays and art works. . . . The non-linear architecture of the book, with its visual-word interplay, makes it a refreshing addition to anthologies on the Northeast.”
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