TY - BOOK AU - Gajarawala,Toral Jatin TI - Untouchable fictions: literary realism and the crisis of caste SN - 9780823245253 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - PK5410.D35 G35 2013 U1 - 891.4 G129U 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - Indic literature KW - Dalit authors KW - History and criticism KW - Indic fiction KW - Realism in literature KW - Dalits in literature KW - Caste in literature KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - India N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -