| #2030360 in Books | Fordham University Press | 2012-12-12 | 2012-12-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.00 x.80 x8.90l,.80 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | |||"Untouchable Fictions goes beyond a mere recognition of the centrality of realism in the postcolonial imagination. Focusing on Dalit writing in India, Gajarawala shows how realism, like other terms, came up against the force of locality and the limits presente
Untouchable Fictions 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. Drawing on a wide array of fiction from Premchand and Renu in Hindi to Mulk Raj Anand and V.S. Naipaul in English, Gajarawala illuminates the dark side of realist complicity: a hidden aesthetics and politics of caste. How does caste color the nov...
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