Bricolage as a High-Cultural Construction: Print, Power and the Reconstitution of Manipuri Literary Culture
Author : Longjam Loyangamba Meitei
Abstract :
This article intends to review the periodic history of Manipur literature focusing on the prisms of Cultural studies and Postcolonial artefacts. Based on the connotation of cultural bricolage, it examines that Manipuri literature has emerges to reconstructs the lineage of public sphere, displacements of identity, negotiated culture through contested site of memories. The main objective of this research tends to observe on the cultural rupture which were moulded through memory vis-à-vis documentation, relooking the destruction of Manipuri ancestral manuscript via replacement of Bengali script. It highlights the manipulation of collective imaginaries through documentation of folklore such as Lai Haraoba.
Keywords :
Bricolage, Context, Print-capitalism, Memory and Culture.
