Reading Devkota’s Prometheus as a Transnational Text: Intersecting the East and the West

This paper reads Laxmi Prasad Devkota’s Prometheus in the backdrop of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Unbound, considering allegiance a Nepali writer to Western canon. Devkota, who had access literary trends West, has attempted appropriate tradition portraying as mythical hero works like Shelly’s and tried localize image elevate marginalized status oppressed society. was unbound that thus unlike Aeschylus bound, Devkota projects this mythology savior voiceless his Drawing on Peter Morgan’s idea transnational literature which “would identify point at two or more geo-cultural imaginaries intersect, connect, engage with, disrupt conflict with each other form,” examines how it intersects East West terms popular myths different societies.