LEADER 03870nam 22005775 450 001 9910888599803321 005 20240923130005.0 010 $a9783031664441$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a3031664442 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-66444-1 035 $a(CKB)36214020200041 035 $a(OCoLC)1460322400$z(OCoLC)1457624519 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31855492 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31855492 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-66444-1 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936214020200041 100 $a20240923d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRepresentations of Dalit Protagonists $eIndian English Fiction and Marathi Dalit Literature /$fby Hanumant Ajinath Lokhande 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 281 pages) $cillustrations 311 1 $a9783031664434 311 1 $a3031664434 327 $aPart I: Entering the Caste -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Representations and Discursive Formations of Caste: A Theoretical Framework -- Part II: Accentuating Caste Prejudices: Progressive Discourse -- Chapter 3: Contesting Voices of Gandhi and Ambedkar in Dalit Representations: Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Amitabh's "Harijan Mastar" -- Chapter 4: Discourse of Sympathy, Violence, and Victimhood - I: Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance and Murlidhar Jadhav's Karyakarta -- Chapter 5: Discourse of Sympathy, Violence, and Victimhood - II: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Laxman Mane's Upara -- Part III: Accentuating Caste Prejudices: Pejorative Discourse -- Chapter 6: Discourse of Difference and Merit: Manu Joseph's Serious Men and Amitabh's "Janmakhoon!" -- Chapter 7: Re-writing Violence and Victimhood: Aravind Adiga's The White Re-writing Violence and Victimhood: Aravind Adiga's The White -- Part IV: Comparing Representational Paradigms -- Chapter 8: Conclusion. 330 $aThis book interrogates canonical Indian English fiction which has Dalit characters as protagonists or major characters, and argues that the representation of such characters, although well-meant, is regulated and made unremarkable. It examines how the normative discourse of the Anglophone novel portrays Dalits from an upper-caste point of view, devoid of Ambedkarite or Dalit consciousness, and thus implicitly reinscribes the upper caste power by restricting the narrative to merely represent Dalit submission and victimhood. The arguments then are substantiated by setting up a comparative framework through contrastive analysis of selected narratives by Dalit writers from Marathi Dalit literature to highlight the differential representational paradigms that mark the absence or presence of Ambedkarite consciousness and perspective. Hanumant Ajinath Lokhande is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Nowrosjee Wadia College (Autonomous), Pune, India. His research interests are in the fields of Indian and comparative literatures, Dalit and Postcolonial studies, and Indian films. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aFiction 606 $aIndia$xReligion 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aIndian Religions 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aIndia$xReligion. 615 14$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aIndian Religions. 676 $a820.9/954 700 $aLokhande$b Hanumant Ajinath$01791841 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910888599803321 996 $aRepresentations of Dalit Protagonists$94329668 997 $aUNINA