Gajarawala, Toral Jatin.

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.


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9780823245246 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780823245253 (pbk. : alk. paper)




Indic literature--Dalit authors--History and criticism.
Indic fiction--History and criticism.
Realism in literature.
Dalits in literature.
Caste in literature.
Modernism (Literature)--India.


Electronic books.

PK5410.D35 / G35 2013eb

891.4