Vol 1 No 1, 2025 Research Article
Dimple M. Scaria
Associate Professor of English, Government College, Chittur, Palakkad, Kerala, India.
DOI: To be assigned
[Article History: Received: 12 Apr 2025. Accepted: 15 May 2025. Published: 24 May 2025]
Abstract
Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends is a marvellous literary work that enables the readers to get a handle on the rich cultural array of Khasi folklore and myths. Splendiferously crafted by Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih, an eminent Khasi writer and a cultural upholder from Meghalaya, India, the book is a corpus of legends that signals the cultural overtones, rhetorical magic, and moral implications of some enthralling ethnic tales and legends. This paper attempts to examine how Nongkynrih’s literary work turns out to be a cultural artefact encapsulating the spirit of Khasi identity by strengthening their feeling of gratification and kinship. It also explores how Nongkynrih’s narrative has contributed to the admiration and treasuring of Khasi heritage among an expansive audience, stimulating intercultural exchange and indigenous knowledge reception. The orality and cultural transmission fuse in this narrative, creating an oral epistemology.
Keywords: Khasi legends, folklore, mythology, cultural memory, performative knowledge, oral epistemology.
