Untouchable fictions
Subtitle: literary realism and the crisis of caste
By: Toral Jatin Gajarawala
Publisher: Fordham University Press; Modern Language Initiative
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780823245246; 9780823245253
Subjects: Realism in literature; Dalit authors; History and criticism; Indic fiction; Modernism (Literature); Dalits in literature; Indic literature; Caste in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Burnings: an introduction; title: The Dalit limit point: realism, representation, and crisis in Premchand; title: Modernism, Marxism, metaphor: the origins of a literary politics of particularism; title: A perfect whole: knowledge by transcription and rural regionalism; title: Casteless modernities: the contemporary anglophone novel and its invisible interlocutors; title: Some time between revisionist and revolutionary . . . : reading history in Dalit textuality; title: Mimesis: the representation of reality in other literatures; title: Epilogue: aesthetics and their afterlives.