ASSIGNMENT

Mohsin Khan has focus on critical theory, and South Asian literature, yet works on a global comparison of literature.

IN GENERAL

The centrality yet infinite diversity of the narrative in human life worlds has effected a great divergence in the literary tradition. The relatively recent emergence of world literature has proven itself pivotal in the assessment of this vast array of literary work, to conceptually and critically establish new canons globally. As an elusive concept, world literature has triggered debate, and has given way to new paradigms of rhetoric, developing a common denominator with which to invoke richer complexities, and to generate a new consciousnesses for the analysis of literature through diverse academic perspectives, creating new horizons for the literary scene. This growth is marked by the trends in translation, where the scene has been populated by those who write in their primary discourse, yet translated to other languages. Furthermore, we have witnessed significant shifts in the ways in which we see the canon, and the way in which other literatures are seen in the present.

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Contestations related to literature in the ideas of nation state, place, geography, immigration, and refugee problems, have given new impetus to reading literatures, and have concomitantly affected other disciplines, those such as anthropology, linguistics, and so forth. With this rise, new academic faculties have emerged, specifically dedicated to an analysis focused on literatures which emanate from different parts of the globe.

World literature and its critique constitutes a significant wave, thus marking society in intellectually specific ways, and presenting a departure from seeing the human spaces in traditional ways, yet as a point of departure, we now see humanity through different lenses, indicatively questioning a Eurocentric/Western rhetoric. As a result, we employ significantly unconventional and creative methods in reestablishing unknown and lesser known, that is, folkloric, traditions.