Question

Characteristics of south asian literature

Answer 1

The term South Asian literature alludes to the abstract works of essayists from the Indian subcontinent and its encompassing territories. Nations to which South Asian literature writers are connected incorporate India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, SriLanka and Nepal, The Maldives, Burma, Bhutan, Afghanistan, and Iran.

South Asian literature is composed in English and also the numerous national and provincial languages of the locale. After the accomplishment of Booker Prize-winning writers like Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, many individuals kicked empowered and started composing.

South Asian writing has been delivered in around forty noteworthy languages, including translations into Persian, Portuguese, French, and English.

Answer 2

South Asian Literature includes the authors of “Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka”.  Sometimes works of writers from Bhutan, Myanmar, Tiber and the Maldives are also included.  Some of the authors are Arundhati Roy, Vikram Seth, Anita Desai, R. K. Narayan etc.  The language used by these authors is mostly English.  But, they also have written in their National and Regional Languages.

Some of the works of the authors are the two great epics – Ramayana and Mahabarata, Folktales collections which consists of Panchatantra, jataka tales, Aesop fables etc.

They are “multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural”.  The literature belongs to the same historical tradition that has shaped a “unified collective psychology and perspectives.”