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Author Gajarawala, Toral Jatin, author.

Title Untouchable fictions : literary realism and the crisis of caste / Toral Jatin Gajarawala
Published New York : Fordham University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages)
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Modernism (Literature) -- India
Caste in literature.
Dalits in literature.
Realism in literature.
Indic fiction -- History and criticism
Indic literature -- Dalit authors -- History and criticism
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Caste in literature
Dalits in literature
Indic fiction
Indic literature -- Dalit authors
Modernism (Literature)
Realism in literature
India
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0823250482
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