Community Literature – Its Aesthetics and Need

An Indian Experience

Abstract

This paper endeavours to (re)propose the idea of ‘community literature’ at par with ‘oral literature’ or ‘tribal literature.’ Re-appropriating the concept of ‘community literature’, encourages documentation, translation, and analysis. It delineates the aesthetic makeup of the ‘community literature’, arguing that it has its aesthetic appeal and depth as a good literature. Finally, enumerating the need for ‘community literature’, it further advocates for translating ‘community literature’ into different languages to preserve the linguistic culture of Indian pastoralists and peripatetic nomads, which otherwise, is on the verge of extinction.