...Manan Desai In 1965, the critic Manohar Namdeo Wankhade completed a Ph.D. in American literature in the U.S. and returned to Maharashtra, where he published several influential essays for the nascent Marathi Dalit literary movement. This essay examines the role that American literature played...

... influenced by free verse poetics in Marathi, making clear that any consideration of modern Hindi literature must take into account the complex interrelationships of literary cultures in South Asia. Thus, Muktibodh’s long poem prompts a reconsideration of the role of genre and form in our understanding...

... postcolonial comparative literary critic has always known of the dominance of certain literatures in languages such as Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. Other Indian literatures have had less national let alone global circulation whether the works have been written in English...

... survey see Orsini, “How to Do” and Guha.) Other regional multilingual literary fields include Telugu-Tamil-Sanskrit, Malayalam-Tamil-Sanskrit, Kannada- Marathi, and so on. THE MULTILINGUAL LOCAL IN WORLD LITERATURE / 353 continuing production in the large range of “knowledge...