001477556 000__ 06440nam\a22010575i\4500 001477556 001__ 1477556 001477556 003__ DE-B1597 001477556 005__ 20231026034816.0 001477556 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477556 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477556 008__ 230103t20122012nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477556 020__ $$a9780823245277 001477556 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823245277$$2doi 001477556 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)555206 001477556 035__ $$a(OCoLC)960757234 001477556 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477556 0410_ $$aeng 001477556 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477556 050_4 $$aPK5410.D35$$bG35 2013 001477556 072_7 $$aLIT008020$$2bisacsh 001477556 08204 $$a891.4$$223 001477556 1001_ $$aGajarawala, Toral Jatin, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477556 24510 $$aUntouchable Fictions :$$bLiterary Realism and the Crisis of Caste /$$cToral Jatin Gajarawala. 001477556 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2012] 001477556 264_4 $$c©2012 001477556 300__ $$a1 online resource (272 p.) 001477556 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477556 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477556 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477556 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477556 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tThree Burnings -- $$t1. The Dalit Limit Point -- $$t2. Modernism, Marxism, Metaphor -- $$t3. A Perfect Whole -- $$t4. Casteless Modernities -- $$t5. Some Time between Revisionist and Revolutionary . . . -- $$tEpilogue -- $$tNotes -- $$tWorks Cited -- $$tIndex 001477556 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477556 520__ $$aUntouchable 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 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 of progressive literary movements in South Asia. Gajarawala reads Dalit writing dialectically, doing justice to its unique and groundbreaking literary interventions while also demanding that it be read as an integral moment in the literary genealogy of the 20th and 21st century. How might we trace the origins of the rise of Dalit fiction in the critical "realism" of the Progressive Writers Association of the 1930s, or in the gaps laid bare by the peasant novel of the 1950s? And what kind of dialogue does "untouchable caste" writing with its more famous counterpart: the Anglophone fiction of the last few decades? Under Gajarawala's lens the aesthetic languages of Hindi and English are intertwined and caste becomes a central category of literary analysis. This book, grounded in the fields of postcolonial theory, South Asian literatures, and cultural studies will be important for all readers interested in the problematic relations between aesthetics and politics, between social movements and cultural production. Engaged as it is with contemporary theories of realism and the problem of aesthetics, it would also be of interest to students of English, comparative literature, contemporary Third World literature, and historians of literary movements. More specifically, as a text that considers recent developments in genre theory and South Asian fiction, it would interest scholars of the Indian and Indian Anglophone novel. Finally, this project, as an interrogation of caste politics in the cultural sphere, is an important contribution to the burgeoning field of Dalit studies. 001477556 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477556 546__ $$aIn English. 001477556 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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