Abstract
In this essay, we locate and explore new literary practices and expressions in Indian digital spaces such as SMS novel and social media narratives: poetry, flash fiction, twitterfiction which are not considered as electronic literature in India. The integration of technology and creativity is not a novel phenomenon in Indian literature where one can find the narrative tradition of ancient Indian literature which includes poetical words, paintings, and music, for instance, Pattachitra, Ragamala paintings and Chitra Kavi. Similarly, new literary practices and expressions in the digital environment include literary artefacts such as interfaces, images, audio and videos. These works serve as a gateway to exciting electronic literature in India.
Highlights
In this essay, we locate and explore new literary practices and expressions in Indian digital spaces such as SMS novel and social media narratives: poetry, flash fiction, twitterfiction which are not considered as electronic literature in India
We locate and explore these new literary practices/expressions in Indian contemporary digital spaces such as SMS novels and social media network narratives, poetry, flash fiction and twitterfiction which are not identified as electronic literature in India, but find no representation in global anthologies
We argue that these creative works using varied digital technologies which represent contemporary cultural allegiances could be conceived as a promising sign of the existence of the electronic literature in India
Summary
We locate and explore new literary practices and expressions in Indian digital spaces such as SMS novel and social media narratives: poetry, flash fiction, twitterfiction which are not considered as electronic literature in India. Such cultural productions originate a new way of practicing literature online through writing a piece of poetry or fiction in brief forms with minimum words.
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