Realism, Revisited
The Case of Dalit Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11677151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Toral Jatin Gajarawala (0009-0009-3975-0400, New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 173-183 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-9527 • E-ISSN: 2573-9476 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02759527.2011.11932818 |
| OpenAlex | W2771518510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
In The Flaming Feet, the Kannada critic D. R. Nagaraj expresses doubt that the aesthetics of realism can properly incorporate “lower caste cosmologies.” This is a sobering suggestion for protest literatures, which have often staked their transgressive claims precisely on radical forms of realism that can somehow do justice to their subject. In light of the putative inability of realist writing to properly narrativize Dalit life-worlds, one must ask: Why is it that Dalit fiction turns again and again to the basic tropes of realism? This paper will attempt to derive the origins of the realist turn in Hindi Dalit literature which clearly labors under another literary genealogy
Aesthetics · Art · Caste · Epistemology · Hindi · Linguistics · Literature · Realism · Sociology · Subject (documents · Transgressive · Computer Science · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Philosophy · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |