Nepali Literature

Puspa Damai is Professor of English at Marshall University, West Virginia, USA. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Critical Humanities. He also co-edits Routledge's book series South Asian Literature in Focus. His publications include two edited volumes: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications (2025), and The Other Nepal: Alterity in Nepali Literature and Culture (2026).

• Nepali Literature: A Conceptual Introduction; PART I GENEALOGIES; 1. Modernist Nepali Poetry, 2. From Epigraphy to E-Books: A Media History of Nepali Literature, 3. Nepali Literature in English Translation: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects, 4. Nation, Language and Identity in Mahakavi Laxmi P Devkota’s Selected Works, 5. Insider Historiography: Diamond Shumsher Rana and Archives of Nepal, 6. Exorcising Ghosts at Politically Liberated Time: A Contextual Reading of Contemporary Nepali Dalit Poetry, 7. Reflections of Revolutionary Tendencies in the Poetry of People’s War in Nepal; PART II GENRES; 8. Dramatic Literature of Nepal: A Brief Critical Survey, 9. Beyond the Flâneur: Processional Walking in Abhi Subedi’s Nepal Mandala Plays, 10. From Aspiration to Attrition: The Risks of Mobility in Nepali Literature, 11. The Role of writing-Khabar Kagaz and Political Consciousness in The Land I Flee; PART III THEORETICAL INTERVENTIONS; 12. The Ethics of Devotion and the Affective Currents of Loss in Bhanubhakta Acharya’s Badhusiksha and Madhav Prasad Ghimire’s Gauri, 13. From Classic Verses to Contemporary Echoes: Tracing Eco-consciousness in Nepali Poetry, 14. Entangled Epistemologies: Human, Non-Human, and the Sexual in Sumnima, 15. Queer Resistance and Gender Fluidity in Nepali Short Stories, 16. Feminine Sensibility and the Villain in Siris ko Phool, 17. Between Mukunda and Punacha: Siddhicharan Shrestha and the Politics of Belonging in Nepali Literature