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