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This paper reads two contemporary novels originally written in two different languages (English and Asamiya),  A Terrible Matriarchy  (2007) and  Ka Meikhar Ghar / High Wind  (2013/2020), representing contiguous traditions (Naga, Asamiya, Khasi) that share some of the cultural tropes of the landscape called Northeast India. Contemporary fiction about this land has largely concentrated on the violence that marks this space in media imaginary. While it is significant that writing about violence in itself may embody protest, it is equally important to engage with textual imaginations that eschew direct representation of violence but nonetheless capture historical processes that gesture toward alternative possibilities of shared histories among diverse communities living in this topography. This paper argues that thinking through matriliny, at a time of major armed conflicts, initiates a debate that may not be summed up in neat categories of hills/plains, self/other. I argue that an engagement with women’s everyday work of weaving as a matrilineal motif (taking cues from Alice Walker’s womanist prose) in literatures produced across different languages and cultures could serve as a key to unravel a complex tapestry and a possible template for “imaginative activism” (Evans and Spivak 2016).

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“In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”: Weaving Matrilineal Yarns in Easterine Kire’s  A Terrible Matriarchy  and Tilottoma Misra’s  Ka Meikhar Ghar/High Wind