Writers, Readers, and
the Sharing of Consciousness: Five Nepali Novels
Michael Hutt
This discussion will focus on five Nepali novels published between 2005 and 2010, i.e. during the final months of the internal conflict between the CPN (Maoist) and the monarchical state, and the period of political transition that followed. The novels were selected mainly because they have been widely read and discussed, at least in Kathmandu, and can therefore be seen as possessing sociological as well as purely literary significance. The paper will explore the sociological significance of the commercial success of several of these books in light of the increasingly close relationship between Nepali literature and the Nepali print media. Finally, it will ask whether the expansion of the readership for Nepali novels in recent years is a sign that the Nepali novel is now breaking out of the narrow elite sphere of ‘art literature’ and becoming a part of what Ashish Nandy calls ‘the popular’.
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Author(s)
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Michael Hutt
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Place of Publication
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United States of
America
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Publisher
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Macalester College
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Publication year
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2014
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Series
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Himalaya, the Journal
of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
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Volume
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34
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Total pages
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15
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Language
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English
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