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Untouchable fictions literary realism and the crisis of caste

Title
Untouchable fictions [electronic resource] : literary realism and the crisis of caste / Toral Jatin Gajarawala.
Author
Gajarawala, Toral Jatin.
Publication
New York : Fordham University Press, c2013.

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Description
1 online resource (x, 258 p.)
Uniform Title
Untouchable fictions (Online)
Alternative Title
Untouchable fictions (Online)
Subject
  • Indic literature > Dalit authors > History and criticism
  • Indic fiction > History and criticism
  • Realism in literature
  • Dalits in literature
  • Caste in literature
  • Modernism (Literature) > India
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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.
LCCN
2012027754
OCLC
ssj0000757215
Author
Gajarawala, Toral Jatin.
Title
Untouchable fictions [electronic resource] : literary realism and the crisis of caste / Toral Jatin Gajarawala.
Imprint
New York : Fordham University Press, c2013.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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