Leenasri Gogoi

Folk Memory as Counter-Archive: Colonial Encounter, Power, and Resistance in Bihu Songs

This paper examines Bihu songs of Assam as counter-archives that preserve and reinterpret the colonial encounter through folk memory. Drawing on the postcolonial lens of Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, the study explores how these songs articulate power, resistance and a critique of colonial modernity. The study focuses o...