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Sites of struggle: Articulations and deformations of power in marginal literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sites of struggle: Articulations and deformations of power in marginal literature./
Author:	Gajarawala, Toral.
Description:	226 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: A, page: 5820.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-02A.
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3165370
ISBN:	9780542007958

Sites of struggle: Articulations and deformations of power in marginal literature.
Gajarawala, Toral.

Sites of struggle: Articulations and deformations of power in marginal literature. - 226 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: A, page: 5820.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2004.

Sites of Struggle examines the representation of marginality in contemporary literature that strategizes its own 'difference', specifically 'Beur' literature, written in French by authors of North African origin and Hindi Dalit literature, written by members of the untouchable castes in India, in order to study a form of realism, stretched by notions of the abject. The dissertation rereads the problem of the representation of social reality by considering specifically the similar ways in which caste and race are evoked in such writing. Rejecting the binocular vision characteristic of traditionalist social realism, such literature opposes the narrative position that distances itself with disdain from its subject, that form of realism that treats the working-class, peasants, and the poor, as if they were biological phenomena, subject to forms of positivist description. The project therefore considers alternative strategies of representation of social marginality in the literary text. Each of the four chapters that follow examine the aesthetic and political implications of various narrative 'deformations' on the level of structure, image and syntax in the work of writers such as Omprakash Valmiki, Mohandas Naimishraya, Azouz Begag and Driss Chraibi. Beginning with an analysis of the logic of purity and pollution, a dominant trope in the treatment of marginality, I sketch an epistemological transition from varied representations of 'pollution' to those of 'dirt', revealing the way in which a certain rhetoric of hygiene has helped to create a 'secular' and scientific language of racism and casteism. Secondly, I focus on a dual deformation: that of the body into corpse/carcass, and narrative into list, deformations that characterize marginality as first and foremost a corporeal enterprise, in which the body becomes subject to the word. The next chapter examines the representation of history and the written word, offering a reading of twin techniques: the flashback, and literary 'recycling,' in which narrative happenings re-present themselves in a different form. The fifth chapter focuses specifically on pedagogical narratives, arguing that the subordinate textualizes experience along an axis of knowledge versus ignorance. Through an analysis of these narrative strategies, I propose that such literature be seen as strategically essentializing its own marginality to demonstrate an understanding of marginal literature that moves away from a simply thematic reading and toward a more formalistic one.

ISBN: 9780542007958Subjects--Topical Terms:

570001
Comparative literature.

Sites of struggle: Articulations and deformations of power in marginal literature.
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