Cast(e)ing Narrative

Christopher, Karen

doi:10.1080/1369801x.2014.888011

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“…We also note that his protagonist Bakha fails to voice individually or collectively. Questioning Anand's representation of untouchables, researcher K. W. Christopher (2015) notes, "When by the 1930s Dalits were asserting their political will, Anand presents them as incapable of an emancipatory will and waiting to be saved by someone". Therefore, towards the end of the novel, when Bakha was utterly frustrated and suffered extreme social segregation, the Mahatma is introduced in the plot.…”

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Aspirations and Entanglements of the “Child of Modern India”: A Legacy of Deprivation in M R Anand’s Untouchable

Sayma

2020

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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Mulk Raj Anand’s ground-breaking debut novel Untouchable has successfully pictured the dreadful condition of the downtrodden outcastes who live in an ‘other space’ devoid of access to the minimum essential rights that might identify them as human species. Their position in Indian caste-ridden society is determined by the limitations of power, delights, and aspirations enjoyed by the caste Hindus living in the spaces under whose shadow they are doomed to live. This paper aims at examining the aspirations and uplifting strategy of the novel’s protagonist Bakha who, despite having promising youth and potentiality, fails to voice against the social deprivation. Being focused on personal interests and aspirations, the sweeper boy mistakenly falls into the victim of dominant discourses of political elites. He ultimately gets confused regarding personal as well as collective emancipation. The paper also argues that along with the abysmal narration of the life of the Untouchables, the novelist has also documented their aspirations that may wither away in the coming days of modern India.

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“…On the other hand, M R Anand comes up with the themes and subject matter dealing with the lives of marginalised groups-workers, sweepers, leather workers, water carriers, women, and Dalits. In this regard, Christopher's (2015) comment is worth mentioning:…”

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Aspirations and Entanglements of the “Child of Modern India”: A Legacy of Deprivation in M R Anand’s Untouchable

Sayma

2020

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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The colonial carnivalesque in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies

Thiara

2016

Journal of Postcolonial Writing

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Drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, this article argues that the novels Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand and Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh represent the destabilization of traditional, pre-colonial hierarchies, especially those of caste, by employing the mode of the colonial carnivalesque. Their representations of the inversion of caste hierarchies often employ grotesque images involving excrement. This novelistic form of the carnivalesque manifests in images of the world-upside-down, which on the one hand invite laughter or a sense of Schadenfreude towards humiliated high-caste figures, and on the other hand elevate Dalits from the mire and filth with which the upper-castes equate them. The essay analyzes whether the critical representations of Untouchability and caste in these novels amount to a critique of the caste system per se, or whether they are confined to a critique of the practices of Untouchability.

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Thresholds of caste and nation: Mulk Raj Anand’s spatial aesthetics inUntouchable

Lal

2018

Journal of Postcolonial Writing

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Cast(e)ing Narrative

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Aspirations and Entanglements of the “Child of Modern India”: A Legacy of Deprivation in M R Anand’s Untouchable

Aspirations and Entanglements of the “Child of Modern India”: A Legacy of Deprivation in M R Anand’s Untouchable

The colonial carnivalesque in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies

Thresholds of caste and nation: Mulk Raj Anand’s spatial aesthetics inUntouchable

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