Untouchable Fictions Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste

Name: Untouchable Fictions Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste
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ISBN: 9780823245253

ISBN-10: 082324525X

ISBN-13: 9780823245253

Edition: 2012

Authors: Toral Jatin Gajarawala

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William Riley Parker Prize for an outstanding article published in PMLAUntouchable 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 writings from Premchand and Renu in Hindi to Mulk RajAnand 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 novel? What are its formal tendencies? What generic constraints does it produce?Untouchable Fictions juxtaposes the Dalit text and its radical critique with a history…

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List price: $40.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 12/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Three Burnings: An Introduction


Dalit Realisms



The Dalit Limit Point: Realism, Representation, and Crisis in Premchand


The Critique of the "Clawless Lion"



Modernism, Marxism, Metaphor: The Origins of a Literary Politics of Particularism


Realist Particularisms



A Perfect Whole: Knowledge by Transcription and Rural Regionalism


Realism and Revelation



Casteless Modernities: The Contemporary Anglophone Novel and Its Invisible Interlocutors


Realism after Modernism?



Some Time between Revisionist and Revolutionary...: Reading History in Dalit Textuality


Dalit Realisms Revisited


Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Other Literatures


Epilogue: Aesthetics and Their Afterlives


Notes


Works Cited


Index