Regional Literature in the Perspectives of World English Literature

This book discusses the regional literature in the perspective of world literature. It analyzes the works like Classical Burmese Poetry, Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine, Oral Performance and Aesthetics, Brian Aldiss’ Hothouse, Stories of Ismat Chughtai, Vikram Chandra’s L ove and Longing in Bombay , Maya Angelou’s Select Works, Rita Kothari’s Unbordered Memories: Sindhi Stories of Partition , Novels of Anita Desai and Dr. Indira Goswami’s Fire on the Mountain and The Moth-Eaten Howdah of the Tusker , Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart , Poems of Meena Kandasamy, Regional Language Classrooms: A Short Study, Rabindranath Tagore’s Gora , Kavi Shiromani Lekhnath Paudyal’s Turuna Tapasi , Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock , Prathibha Ray’s Yajnaseni , Kamala Das’s Poems, Stories of Karbi Literature, Indian Women Poets, Indian epics Mahabharatha and Ramayana , Hart Crane’s “The Bridge”, Toru Dutt and Her “Our Casaurina Tree”. World Literature is a touchstone of local culture, it becomes a standard for a local culture. It then becomes an influence on a regional culture, and later a part of the fabric of global community. It moves from local to regional to global.