The Problematic of Class Relations and Gender in Bhutan: Situating Marxo-Feminist Praxis in Kunzang Choden’s The Circle of Karma

Abstract

Literary theory negotiated (and altered) the literary semantics good deal with its
overbearing intellectual discourse in the enlighted contemporary academia. The curious
saga of literary inquiry has come a long way from simpleton traits of Liberal humanism
which shirked from the explanation of the totalizing realities and the ‘grand narratives’.
The congenial discourses forged by the literary theory could be, with an intellectual
comfort, characterized as clenching the intellectual universe from its parametric ends
and vouch for something which was earlier glossed over and in the process flinched
from ethical responsibilities of discursive information and ethical imagination. And
the ethical angle of literary performance is conspicuous in Swearingen’s observation
where he avers that literature as a “rhetorical” transaction involving “author, text
and reader” is essentially an ethical project that presupposes a community of readers
(Swearingen 145). The contemporary literary theory