Orality in Mamang Dai’s The Black Hill

Mamang Dai, a Northeastern English fiction writer, in her fiction The Black Hill (2014) powerfully voices the theme of ecological resistance. The novel resists interference of the Christian Missionaries to spread the gospel, considered to be a threat to the pagan faith of the native tribes. It ends with the return of the female protagonist to the lap of nature for spiritual healing when everything goes wrong in her life with the advent of the arrival of the foreign non-tribal preacher to encroach on environ of the land. Ecocritical postcolonial study deals with the study of relationship between literature and the environment. The male protagonist, Kajinsha resists this arrival along with the other tribal people unitedly to stop the missionary preacher, Father Nicholas Krick, as they believe that resisting outsiders doesn’t mean simply to defend one’s land; rather it will affect the whole ecological system of their native culture. This article focuses how the foreign invasion destroys the indigenous culture and ecosystem and establishing the alien culture and systems.