Non Native American Literature

Literature is the mirror of the society, which shows the image of the society as it is reflected through ones actions. It embodies and displays it as it is, with its ups and downs. Literature is always associated with public life since the start of human civilization. So, a feeling of oneness and social responsibility is compulsory for a skilled craftsman and in every individual. Indeed, a craftsman performs his social responsibility in weaving the abstract abilities artistically and in making it magnificent. Generally, literature is divided into two kinds, mainly Fictional and Non- Fictional Literature. Fictional Literature is a work of art that is meant to provide information, education and entertainment to the readers. Non- Fictional Literature

The four major phases in this trajectory, that is largely accepted are: the first phase is one with complete subservience and intellectual slavery, the second one is total defiance and a falling back on desperate nativity and national identity, the third a sort of internationalism and universalisation (sadharanikarana), and the last, that is almost concurrent with the third, one of creative integration. Consequently, a large number of Indians were greatly moved by the genuine desire to present before the western readers an authentic picture of India through their writings. The works of various writers get not only a vast category of readers, but also receive a vast critical acclaim. Many Indian writers have choosen English as a medium of expression and left a great impact on different forms of literature. For example Toru Dutt, Pandita Ramabai Saraswati, Sri Aurobindo, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarojini Naidu, Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Nissim Ezekiel, Nayantara Sahgal, Kamala Das, Jayant Mahapatra, Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie, Shashi Deshpande, and some recent Indian writers such as Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Arvind Adiga, Chetan Bhagat and many others have been using English to represent the Indian culture and spirit. Salman Rushdie is the most notable among all the Indian

C. The very word ‘drama’ derives from the Greek word ‘dran’ means to do or act. Drama, was not therefore supposed to be merely dialogues. It also meant to be imitation of action in the real life situation or happening. It is a composite art in which the written word of the playwright is concretized when it becomes the spoken word of the actor on the stage. It involves the playwright, the actor, the audience, plot construction, characterization, dialogues, music etc. Drama has been a very influential and powerful medium in the English literature because of its audio visual medium of expression. “Drama is a mimetic representation of life combining in itself the real and the fictional, art and reality and representing the events and characters within a dimension of space and time”. It combines the qualities of narrative poetry with those of visual arts. It is a narrative made visible. In fact, in the history of the ancient Literature, Drama was described as Dramatic Poetry, because the dialogues in the drama, or the play, were written in the poetic form with metrical terms. In the western literature, Drama as a form of literature originated in the ancient Greece sowing the seed of the tragic