Author : Toral Jatin Gajarawala
Release : 2013
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 241/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste by : Toral Jatin Gajarawala
Download or read book Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste written by Toral Jatin Gajarawala. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 writings 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?