Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste

Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste
Author: Toral Jatin Gajarawala
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0823245241


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Untouchable Fictions considers the crisis of literary realism--progressive, rural, regionalist, experimental--in order to derive a literary genealogy for the recent explosion of Dalit ("untouchable caste") fiction. Drawing on a wide array of writings from Premchand and Renu in Hindi to Mulk Raj Anand and V. S. Naipaul in English, Gajarawala illuminates the dark side of realist complicity: a hidden aesthetics and politics of caste. How does caste color the novel? What are its formal tendencies? What generic constraints does it produce?


Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste
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Pages: 273
Authors: Toral Jatin Gajarawala
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

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Untouchable Fictions considers the crisis of literary realism--progressive, rural, regionalist, experimental--in order to derive a literary genealogy for the re
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