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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение. Журналистика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-9220</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-9247</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">26078</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-9220-2021-26-1-71-78</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>LITERARY CRITICISM</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Литературоведение</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The Construction of Insider - Outsider in Anglophone Writings from Northeast India</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>«Свой» и «чужой» в произведениях писателей северо-востока Индии</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Biswas</surname><given-names>Debajyoti</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Бисвас</surname><given-names>Дебаджьоти</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Assistant Professor of the Department of English</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доцент кафедры английского языка</p></bio><email>deb61594@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Das</surname><given-names>Rupanjit</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Дас</surname><given-names>Рупанджит</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>research scholar in the Department of English at Bodoland University, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, GLC College, Gauhati University</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>научный сотрудник кафедры английского языка Бодоландского университет, доцент кафедры истории колледжа GLC Университета Гаухати</p></bio><email>dasrupanjit@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Bodoland University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Бодоландский университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-03-28" publication-format="electronic"><day>28</day><month>03</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>26</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 26, NO1 (2021)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 26, №1 (2021)</issue-title><fpage>71</fpage><lpage>78</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-03-28"><day>28</day><month>03</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Biswas D., Das R.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Бисвас Д., Дас Р.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Biswas D., Das R.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Бисвас Д., Дас Р.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/26078">https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/26078</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The works of three writers from northeast India, Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home , Mamang Dai’s Stupid Cupid and Anjum Hasan’s Lunatic in my Head that cover the problem of identity in relation to the insider - outsider politics in the region are examined. The northeast India is in many ways a miniature India because it houses people from various ethnicity and linguistic groups. However, much of the immigration took place after the East India Company annexed the northeast region starting from 1826. The extraction of the resources and subjugation of the people in this region by the colonisers and later by successive Indian governments has left an indelible mark of cultural imperialism triggering social haemorrhage. This changing position of the insider - outsider is not only a part of the political discourse but also the literature that is produced in this region. The analysis of the writings of Temsula Ao, Mamang Dai, and Anjum Hasan allows to look at the problem from two perspectives: the indigenous population experiencing anxiety and leading various violent campaigns to expel so-called outsiders, and the northeasterners facing similar racial prejudices when visiting mainland India and being subjected to derogatory racial slurs.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Исследуются работы трех писателей из Северо-Восточной Индии: «Эти холмы, называемые домом» Темсулы Ао, «Глупый амур» Маманг Дай и «Сумасшедший в моей голове» Анджум Хасан, посвященные вопросу идентичности в связи с действующей в регионе политикой инсайдеров и аутсайдеров. Северо-Восточная Индия во многих отношениях является Индией в миниатюре, потому что здесь проживают люди различных этнических и языковых групп. Однако большая часть иммиграции произошла после того, как Ост-Индская компания аннексировала северо-восточный регион, начиная с 1826 года. Добыча ресурсов и подчинение людей колонизаторами, а затем сменяющими друг друга правительствами Индии оставили неизгладимый след культурного империализма, вызывая социальное кровотечение. Эта меняющаяся позиция «своего» - «чужого» нашла отражение не только в политическом дискурсе, но и в литературе региона. Анализ произведений Темсулы Ао, Маманг Дай и Анджум Хасан позволяет взглянуть на проблему с двух позиций: коренного населения, испытывающего беспокойство и ведущего различные насильственные кампании, чтобы изгнать так называемых чужаков, и северо-восточных жителей, сталкивающихся с аналогичными расовыми предрассудками, посещая материковую Индию, и подвергающихся уничижительными расовыми оскорблениями.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Northeast India</kwd><kwd>nationalism</kwd><kwd>subnationalism</kwd><kwd>Anjum Hasan</kwd><kwd>Mamang Dai</kwd><kwd>Temsula Ao</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Северо-Восточная Индия</kwd><kwd>национализм</kwd><kwd>субнационализм</kwd><kwd>Анджум Хасан</kwd><kwd>Маманг Дай</kwd><kwd>Темсула Ао</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>McDuie-Ra, D. (2017). 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