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Abstract

This paper aims to highlight the role the literary theory has played for the global peacepromotion. Three literary approaches will be discussed here to bring to the light as tohow different approaches have remained successful to unfold the sources of crises inthe recent era. This paper elucidates that economic inequality and the class strugglebetween the haves and haves not, the global identity conflicts, such as ethnic, religiousand political divides, ensuing the upsurge of violence, bloodshed and mass murder andissues related to the gender disparity have been highlighted in the literary theory byKarl Marx, Edward Said, and Gayatri Spivak as Marxist, Postcolonial and Feministcritics, respectively. By highlighting the injustice around the globe, these critics, withthe help of their literary theories sought to understand today’s chaotic world. Thecritics also suggest the strategies to cope with this chaos and to bring harmony andpeace in the world. The data on literary theory have been collected by closely studyingthe primary texts of the authors. Close Reading method has been employed to analysethe texts further. By analyzing the texts, it has been concluded that these theoriesconverge on one point; they all reflect on peace promotion.