LEADER 05513nam 2200937 a 450 001 9910808095903321 005 20230823223527.0 010 $a0-8232-4527-6 010 $a0-8232-5078-4 010 $a0-8232-5048-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823245277 035 $a(CKB)2670000000275482 035 $a(EBL)3239769 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000757215 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11414268 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757215 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10758018 035 $a(PQKB)10860534 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000124816 035 $a(OCoLC)822024945 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19465 035 $a(DE-B1597)555206 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823245277 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239769 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10611585 035 $a(OCoLC)923764015 035 $a(OCoLC)960757234 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4704525 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL818141 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239769 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1107655 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704525 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000275482 100 $a20120726d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aUntouchable fictions $eliterary realism and the crisis of caste /$fToral Jatin Gajarawala 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (268 pages) 311 0 $a0-8232-4525-X 311 0 $a0-8232-4524-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBurnings: 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. 330 $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 1930's, or in the gaps laid bare by the peasant novel of the 1950's? 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. 606 $aIndic literature$xDalit authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIndic fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRealism in literature 606 $aDalits in literature 606 $aCaste in literature 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zIndia 610 $aAesthetics. 610 $aCaste. 610 $aDalit. 610 $aFiction. 610 $aHindi. 610 $aIndia. 610 $aNarrative. 610 $aProgressive. 610 $aRealism. 610 $aRealist. 610 $aWorld Literature. 615 0$aIndic literature$xDalit authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIndic fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRealism in literature. 615 0$aDalits in literature. 615 0$aCaste in literature. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 676 $a891.4 676 $a891.4 700 $aGajarawala$b Toral Jatin$01720141 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808095903321 996 $aUntouchable fictions$94118541 997 $aUNINA