Locating New Literary Practices in Indian Digital Spaces

Authors

  • Shanmugapriya T Indian Institute of Technology Indore
  • Nirmala Menon

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_6-1_11

Keywords:

new literary practices, digital environment, India, ancient literary pratices

Abstract

In this essay, we locate and explore new literary practices and expressions in Indian digital spaces such as SMS novel and social media narratives: poetry, flash fiction, twitterfiction which are not considered as electronic literature in India.  The integration of technology and creativity is not a novel phenomenon in Indian literature where one can find the narrative tradition of ancient Indian literature which includes poetical words, paintings, and music, for instance, Pattachitra, Ragamala paintings and Chitra Kavi. Similarly, new literary practices and expressions in the digital environment include literary artefacts such as interfaces, images, audio and videos. These works serve as a gateway to exciting electronic literature in India. 

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Nirmala Menon

Dr. Nirmala is co-author of the article

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2018-08-10

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T, Shanmugapriya, and Nirmala Menon. 2018. “Locating New Literary Practices in Indian Digital Spaces”. MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 6 (1):159-74. https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_6-1_11.

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