IS INDIAN LITERATURE BEGING FRAGMENTED?
The very idea that literature is being fragmented might be a bogey created by elitist, exclusive groups who may believe that the literature they appreciate is the only literature. Some types of literature appeal and hold attraction to specific peoples among a single language community. FRAGMENTATION OF LITERATURE IS POSSIBLY A MISNOMER ‘Fragmentation of literature’ is possibly an attitudinal misnomer for ‘diversification’ and ‘democratization’ of creative writing. With the advent of democracy, peoples who had hither to no access to the elitist writings, have been struggling to come up with their own creative capabilities. In any given language, more and more people are taking to the pen mainly with a view to venting their feelings against hegemony. Fragmentation, perhaps, is a fear that literature is being broken to cater to particular peoples in a language community. In the Indian context, the depressed classes, the hitherto neglected classes are sometimes writing for a clientele, whi
