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Inlays of Subjectivity: Affect and Action in Modern Indian Literature by Nikhil Govind (review)
Ist Teil von
Studies in the Novel, 2020-10, Vol.52 (3), p.351-353
Ort / Verlag
Denton: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
[...]when Ambedkar translates this experience into a memoir, Govind observes a double-voice (a feature that he is interested in throughout the book): on one hand, Ambedkar achieves a voice that is dry-eyed and measured, yet also intimate and passionate in righteous anger. In the first chapter, a study of K. R. Meera’s Malayalam novel Hangwoman (2012), Govind looks at how the protagonist, a young woman from an impoverished caste of executioners, manages to turn the repugnance of her profession into a viable opportunity by capitalizing upon the sensationalist twenty-four-hour news media networks as an avenue of self-fashioning. Inlays is an important contribution to the field of Indian social theory and literary studies, especially to recent works such as Ulka Anjaria’s re-examination of realism in early-twentieth century Indian novels (Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel, 2012), Toral Gajarawala’s study of genre in Hindi Dalit literature (Untouchable Fictions, 2013), Udaya Kumar’s work on first-person narratives and autobiographies in Malayalam literature (Writing the First Person, 2016), Aniket Jaaware’s insistence on ‘destitution’ in literature (Practicing Caste, 2018), and Sundar Sarukkai and Gopal Guru’s phenomenology of untouchability (The Cracked Mirror, 2012).