Nepali Literature & Ethnicity: A Study in the Mode of Representation

Abstract

This research paper Nepali literature & Ethnicity: A Study in the Mode of Representation studies about how contemporary Nepali literatures directly or indirectly reflect, fictionalize or symbolizes about the burning ethnic issues. The paper also delves into the subject matter as to what extent Nepali and foreign writers have asserted the rights of ethnic indigenous peoples and polticalized or romanticized this issue. The multiple theoretical as well as philosophical stands taken by Nepali as well as foreign writers on the ethnic issue and their divergent opinions suggest that the issue of ethnicity or indigenous movement for identity is not merelya political issue and rather entrenched with elusive historical, social, cultural and political roots. That is why Nepali literatures reflect thoughts of Marxism, Maoism, Feminism and Class Struggle, while,at the same time they poeticize, romanticize, problematize and indulge in new historicism. Hence, it seems that there is no confluence of trajectories on the ethnic issues being reflected via these literatures. Key Words: EthnicIssue, Identity, Federalism, Janajati, Indigenous, Maoist, Kiranti, Tamang, Mhendo, Namdeng, Bise Nagarchi,Sun Re Siya Ram,Brahmin, Chetries, Proletarian.