| 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Caste in literature.
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Dalits in literature.
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Indic fiction -- History and criticism.
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Indic literature -- Dalit authors -- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Literature) -- India.
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Realism in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Dictionaries.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0823245276 (electronic bk.) |
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0823250482 (electronic bk.) |
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0823250784 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823245277 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823250486 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823250783 (electronic bk.) |
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