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Unearthing Subaltern Agency: The Representation of Marginalized Populations in Contemporary Indian Literature

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This dissertation studies fictionalized diasporic subalternity, how it is represented by the authors (of the same social status or a cosmopolitan writer), and how different types of agency layered onto the characters influence each other. The choice of texts includes Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke (2011), Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of...

Keyword:

diaspora, Gujarati, subaltern, Dalit, and pidgin

Subject:

English

Creator:

Tanushree Vachharajani

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

04/30/2018

Date Modified:

04/30/2018

Date Created:

2017-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation