TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yadav, Kumkum
TI  - Tribals in Indian narratives
SN  - 817986037X
U1  - 307.7720954 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Simla
PB  - Indian Institute of Advanced Study
N1  - CONTENTS Acknowledgements  vii Foreword  ix Preface  xi SECTION I ANTHROPOLOGICAL NARRATIVES 1 The Representation of Tribals: Images and Reality  3 2 Imaging the Tribals in First Person Singular Verrier Elwin's Autobiography, Rahul Sankrityayan's Travelogue and M.N. Srinivas' Monograph-Memoir  24 3 The Fact and the Fiction of a Tribal Movement  45 The Birsa Munda Rebellion in Texts by Kumar Surcsh Singh and Mahasweta Devi 4 The Breaking Down of Genres A Study of Shaani's An Island of Sal  63 SECTION 11 THE MODE OF THE METAPHOR 5 The Middle Class and the Distant Romance The Tribal Non-Tribal Interface in Popular and 'Serious' Fiction 89 6 Violence as Tribal Oppression, Resistance and Impulse in Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya's lyaruingam and Mrityunjay 113 7 Tribal Issues, Metaphysical Dimensions Description, Protest and Philosophy in Gopinath Mohanty's Paraja  137 8 Tribal Women in Modern Indian Writing 157 Index 173
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