Delinking, Relinking, and Linking Writing and Rhetorics

Praise for this bookThis is much anticipated book that investigates a less explored area of rhetoricand writing in a non-Western and indigenous context. Well-crafted argumentsfrom Dr. Marohang Limbu's comprehensive research help build a strong andcompelling case to study indigenous identities from a thought-provokingperspective.- Yowei Kang, PhD, Assistant ProfessorNational Taiwan Ocean University, TaiwanThis is an important and ambitious work that crosses linguistic, cultural, andgeographic boundaries. In doing this transdisciplinary scholarship, Limbuis making key contributions to indigenous and scholarly communities. Inbridging these areas, his scholarship informs work in writing and languagestudies, cultural rhetorics, and globalization.- Steven Fraiberg, PhD, Associate ProfessorMichigan State University, USAThe book, based on the fieldwork in four countries (Nepal, India, UK, andUSA) across four continents, on the development of Sirijanga script andLimbu culture and history promises to bring deep insights, relying on oralhistory, archival and archeological research, and interviews, on how cultureand traditions of an indigenous people survived inhospitable political regimesin Nepal and India, and how the community and network of activists acrosscontingents are working to preserve and expand it after the advent of openpolitical regimes in South Asia.- Mahendra Lawoti, PhD, ProfessorWestern Michigan University, USAThis book is an extremely rich, immensely persuasive, and utterly compellingpiece of substantive Yakthung writing and rhetoric documentation, includinganalyses and interpretations. It demonstrates the immense power ofMarohang's delinking, relinking, and linking theory in the context of the 21stcentury both in academic and popular cultures.- Govinda B. Tumbahang, PhD, Former GovernorRegion No. 1, NepalMarohang Limbu's book is judicious, informed, and incisive, invitingthe enthusiast into a serious of critical engagement with even the mostdifficult selections while avoiding the simplistic categories that mar toomany anthologies. In this book, Limbu makes compelling argumentson the exploration, interpretation, and documentation of HimalayanIndigenous writing and rhetorics ever anybody has done to the groundreality.- Balkrishna Mabuhang, Associate ProfessorTribhuvan University, NepalThe book delves into invention, interventions, and reinvention of the Sirijangascript and writing system through Dr. Limbu's delinking, relinking, andlinking theoretical lens. Limbu's book delinks paracolonization, relinksancestral customary institutional traditions, and links them with other localand global Indigenous and non-Indigenous epistemologies in the context ofthe 21st century networked world. This book is and always will be an excellentsource of information for academicians, scholars, and common readers.- Buddhi L. Khamdak, PhD, Sikkim University, India