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What is Literature ?

What is Afro – Asian Literature?

 What is Literature ?
• Literature, most generically, is any body of
written works, Literature refers to writing
considered to be an art form or any single
writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual
value, often due to deploying language in
ways that differ from ordinary usage.
 Afro – Asian Literature?
• It is a term for writing written by people from mixed African-Arab ethnicity, or African-
Asian ethnicity.

• Literary works were handed by mouth from generation to generation to entertain,

educate and remind the people about their past, heroic deeds of their people, ancestry
and culture.

• Afro-Asian literature is a sign of new and modern times. It also teaches people and
allow them to learn about different experiences and cultures from all over the world.
What are their culture?
• The Afro-Asian countries usually cared for their family first; then they are fond of
their social values; and specially, their love for their own country.
• They are religious because they give importance to 'The Creator' by giving thanks
and offering prayers to Him.
• They are also active in celebrating festivals that reflects their own characteristics as
an Asian.