Title: Representing the margin
First published: 2008
Description: This remarkable study on post colonial Indian fiction/s written in various regional languages is on the representation of socio-cultural margins of caste and gender in the novel.  The book analyzes works of fiction mostly written in the second half of the twentieth century by eminent Indian authors in languages like Urdu/Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam and English.  It is also an ethical and epistemological critique of caste and Brahmanic patriarchy in India.  Novelists like Premchand, Abdul Bismillah, Mahasweta Devi, Sirshendu Mukhopadhyaya, U R Anantha Moorthy, Rao Bahaddur, O V Vijayan, K J Baby, Raja Rao, Arundhati Roy are featured and discussed in the work.  It provides critical perspectives on Indian culture, literature and society at large.  It is also a critique of Indian cultural histories or heterologies and modernity as well.  It provides an alternative subaltern hermeneutics and reading and articulating position by critiquing the hegemonic trends in post colonial studies.
Subjects: Indian fiction, Indian fictions, caste and gender in Indian cultures and novels, representation of marginalia in fiction, dalit bahujan issues in Indian fiction, women's issues in Indian fiction, History and criticism, Sex role in literature, Men in literature, Indic fiction, Women in literature, Gender identity in literature, Indic fiction (English), Caste in literature
Places: Kerala, India, Bengal, Karnataka, Kantapura, Aymanam, Benaras
People: Arundhati Roy (1961-), O V Vijayan, Raja Rao, K J Baby, Mahasweta Devi, Prem Chand, Abdul Bismillah, Rao Bahaddur, Ambedkar, Narayana Guru, Poykayil Appachan, E V R, Kabir, Phule
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PK5423 (P-PZ22)+