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This essay examines the fictional outputs of Janice Pariat, a Khasi Anglophone writer from India’s Northeast, as distinctive narratives that moot a counterpoint to the postcolonial dispensation of the region and provokes a new way of reading it. Pariat takes on the amenable geographies she inhabits as ephemeral spaces of relational entanglements and induces a self-reflexive and diffusive dimension of representation within the historicity of Northeast Indian writing. Resisting earlier homogenizing narratives, Pariat’s unmappable agencies (the human and the non-human) explicate the nuances of experiential decoloniality. Her locales move fuzzily from the jagged terrains of the Northeast through the (sub)continental metropolis and back, leaving diffusive traces of a presence that is supra-regional. The discursivity getting consolidated thus validates a narrative  gnoseology  that debunks the postcolonial episteme of the Northeast as an introverted discursive space.

Decoloniality as Diffusive Relationality: Janice Pariat’s Fiction as Expression of the Unmappable