Burnings : an introduction -- The Dalit limit point : realism, representation, and crisis in Premchand -- Modernism, Marxism, metaphor : the origins of a literary politics of particularism -- A perfect whole : knowledge by transcription and rural regionalism -- Casteless modernities : the contemporary anglophone novel and its invisible interlocutors -- Some time between revisionist and revolutionary ... : reading history in Dalit textuality -- Mimesis : the representation of reality in other literatures -- Epilogue : aesthetics and their afterlives
Summary
This title 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