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Untouchable Fictions

Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste

Autor: Toral Jatin Gajarawala

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Editura: Fordham University Press

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Untouchable Fictions considers the crisis of literary realism--progressive, rural, regionalist, expe...

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Autor

Toral Jatin Gajarawala

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2012

Pagini

272

EAN

9780823245246

ISBN

0823245241

Enbook ID

04941282

Editura

Fordham University Press

Greutate

522

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 23

Descriere completă

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 juxtaposes the Dalit text and its radical critique with a history of progressive literary movements in South Asia. Gajarawala reads Dalit writing dialectically, doing justice to its unique and groundbreaking literary interventions while also demanding that it be read as an integral moment in the literary genealogy of the 20th and 21st centuries. This book, grounded in the fields of postcolonial theory, South Asian literatures, and cultural studies, makes a crucial intervention into studies of literary realism and will be important for all readers interested in the problematic relations between aesthetics and politics and between social movements and cultural production.