Representing the margin

This remarkable study on post colonial Indian fiction/s written in various regional languages is on the representation of socio-cultural margins of caste and gender in the novel. The book analyzes works of fiction mostly written in the second half of the twentieth century by eminent Indian authors in languages like Urdu/Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam and English. It is also an ethical and epistemological critique of caste and Brahmanic patriarchy in India. Novelists like Premchand, Abdul Bismillah, Mahasweta Devi, Sirshendu Mukhopadhyaya, U R Anantha Moorthy, Rao Bahaddur, O V Vijayan, K J Baby, Raja Rao, Arundhati Roy are featured and discussed in the work. It provides critical perspectives on Indian culture, literature and society at large. It is also a critique of Indian cultural histories or heterologies and modernity as well. It provides an alternative subaltern hermeneutics and reading and articulating position by critiquing the hegemonic trends in post colonial studies.