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1st Edition

Nepali Literature Genres, Genealogies and Theoretical Interventions

Edited By Puspa Damai Copyright 2027

360 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

This volume provides a critical introduction to Nepali literature written by authors living in Nepal and overseas. Besides presenting a historical overview of the field, the book also discusses some of the prevalent themes in Nepali literature. It contains chapters on several canonical writers such as Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Madhav Prasad Ghimire, and Balkrishna Sama as well as contemporary Nepali... Read more

Table of Contents

Nepali Literature: A Conceptual Introduction

Puspa Damai

PART I GENEALOGIES

1. Modernist Nepali Poetry

Abhi Subedi

2. From Epigraphy to E-Books: A Media History of Nepali Literature

Raj K. Baral & Mahesh Paudyal

3. Nepali Literature in English Translation: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects

Bal Ram Adhikari

4. Nation, Language and Identity in Mahakavi Laxmi P Devkota’s Selected Works

Phatik Poudyal

5. Insider Historiography: Diamond Shumsher Rana and Archives of Nepal

Tara Prasad Adhikari

6. Exorcising Ghosts at Politically Liberated Time: A Contextual Reading of Contemporary Nepali Dalit Poetry

Shiva Rijal

7. Reflections of Revolutionary Tendencies in the Poetry of People’s War in Nepal

Bhim Nath Regmi

PART II GENRES

8. Dramatic Literature of Nepal: A Brief Critical Survey

Carol C. Davis & Jiva Nath Lamsal

9. Beyond the Flâneur: Processional Walking in Abhi Subedi’s Nepal Mandala Plays

Pushpa Raj Acharya

10. From Aspiration to Attrition: The Risks of Mobility in Nepali Literature

Megharaj Adhikari

11. The Role of writing-Khabar Kagaz and Political Consciousness in The Land I Flee

Dibya Darpan Adhikari

PART III THEORETICAL INTERVENTIONS

12. The Ethics of Devotion and the Affective Currents of Loss in Bhanubhakta Acharya’s Badhusiksha and Madhav Prasad Ghimire’s Gauri

Shiva Mainaly

13. From Classic Verses to Contemporary Echoes: Tracing Eco-consciousness in Nepali Poetry

Shankar Paudel & Sushil Paudel

14. Entangled Epistemologies: Human, Non-Human, and the Sexual in Sumnima

Menuka Gurung

15. Queer Resistance and Gender Fluidity in Nepali Short Stories

Asmita Bista & Jiwan Kumar Rai

16. Feminine Sensibility and the Villain in Siris ko Phool

Renuka Khatiwada

17. Between Mukunda and Punacha: Siddhicharan Shrestha and the Politics of Belonging in Nepali Literature

Sanjit Bhakt Pradhanang

Editor(s)

Biography

Puspa Damai is Professor of English at Marshall University, West Virginia, USA. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Critical Humanities. He also co-edits Routledge's book series South Asian Literature in Focus. His publications include two edited volumes: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications (2025), and The Other Nepal: Alterity in Nepali Literature and Culture (2026).

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