| #1085346 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 | |||Dalit writing has posed extremely serious and challenging questions to literary studies in India. This book presents a sustained, insightful, and original engagement with these questions as it maps the project of modern Dalit (primarily Hindi) fiction. (―Sim
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 no...
You easily download any file type for your device.Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste | Toral Jatin Gajarawala. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
