Untouchable fictions literary realism and the crisis of caste / [electronic resource] :
Toral Jatin Gajarawala.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
- x, 258 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Burnings: an introduction -- The Dalit limit point: realism, representation, and crisis in Premchand -- Modernism, Marxism, metaphor: the origins of a literary politics of particularism -- A perfect whole: knowledge by transcription and rural regionalism -- Casteless modernities: the contemporary anglophone novel and its invisible interlocutors -- Some time between revisionist and revolutionary . . . : reading history in Dalit textuality -- Mimesis: the representation of reality in other literatures -- Epilogue: aesthetics and their afterlives.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Indic literature--Dalit authors--History and criticism. Indic fiction--History and criticism. Realism in literature. Dalits in literature. Caste in literature. Modernism (Literature)--India.