What are the major thematic and narrative concerns in folk literature?  

Folk literature displays a close proximity with the socio-cultural undercurrents and ebb and flow of life like any other literature. This is a generalised feature of all literatures but for folk literature this is an exclusive requirement. The world of folk literature has never been based on publication business with its multi-layered processes of making a successful text; rather it has always sustained on its capability to provide people with a medium of expression which smoothly tells their story and enriches itself with every fresh narration. The instinct to listen to a story and tell a story is not exclusively a child’s trait. This instinct characterizes the nature of all humans irrespective of age. Therefore when it comes to people’s literature i.e. folk literature, then the story-telling becomes the central tenet. The creative manifestations of this universal instinct in the form of folk literature are celebrated all over India through stories and legends told, adapted, improvised and innovated with an amalgam.

of real incidents, personal experiences, cultural appropriations, historical and contemporary relevance. As Raja Rao says in his Foreword to Kanthapura:

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