Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste
ISBN: 9780823245277
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Caste in literature.; Dalits in literature.; Realism in literature.; Indic fiction; Indic literature;

Untouchable Fictions dissects the aesthetic and political crises of realism in order to chart the development of Dalit or "untouchable caste" writing. Arguing that Dalit literature responds to a failure of older literary movement to properly accommodate caste, the book situates the aesthetic maneuvers of the Dalit text in dialectical relationship with older progressive literary movements.

Gajarawala Toral Jatin :

Toral Jatin Gajarawala is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University.


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