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Gajarawala is among the most intellectually ambitious of the contemporary Anglophone literary critics of Dalit writing, and she nicely manages to retain a stereoscopic focus on Dalit literary production and Dalit aesthetic theory. --Parama Roy, University of California, Davis Dalit writing has posed extremely serious and challenging questions to literary studies in India. This book presents a sustained, insightful, and original engagement with these questions as it maps the project of modern Dalit (primarily Hindi) fiction. --Simona Sawhney, University of Minnesota Untouchable Fictions is outstanding in its recognition of the interplay of realism (as a formal structure), the literary canon (as the condition of possibility of nationalism), and the crisis of caste as the social force that could redirect or question all the narrative accounts on which a literary history of India was premised. The book's brilliant engagement with both the cultural politics of Dalit writing and the aesthetic ideology of Dalit literature makes it a model of the work that awaits to be done in our field. --Simon Gikandi, Princeton University

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

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