Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste
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| Author | : Toral Jatin Gajarawala |
| Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780823245246 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0823245241 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste by : Toral Jatin Gajarawala
Book excerpt: 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?
