Toral J. Gajarawala (Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, NYU) speaks on her new book,
Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste (Fordham University Press, 2012), which considers the crisis of literary realism in order to derive a genealogy for the recent explosion of Dalit (“untouchable” caste) fiction. With respondents
Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University and editor of
PMLA, and
Robert Young, Silver Professor and Professor of English & Comparative Literature at NYU.
Professor Gajarawala received her PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature at UC-Berkeley, and her articles have appeared in journals such as Comparative Literature Studies, MLQ, and PMLA. Her PMLA article, " Some Time between Revisionist and Revolutionary: Unreading History in Dalit Literature", won the 2011 William Riley Parker Prize for an outstanding article published in the PMLA. She is currently at work on a project that considers global paradigms of indigeneity in literary movements.
This event is co-sponsored by the Comparative Literature Program at Fordham University and the Humanities Initiative at NYU. Please RSVP at http://hiuntouchablefic.eventbrite.com.
This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
Professor Gajarawala received her PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature at UC-Berkeley, and her articles have appeared in journals such as Comparative Literature Studies, MLQ, and PMLA. Her PMLA article, " Some Time between Revisionist and Revolutionary: Unreading History in Dalit Literature", won the 2011 William Riley Parker Prize for an outstanding article published in the PMLA. She is currently at work on a project that considers global paradigms of indigeneity in literary movements.
This event is co-sponsored by the Comparative Literature Program at Fordham University and the Humanities Initiative at NYU. Please RSVP at http://hiuntouchablefic.eventbrite.com.
This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.