000			01326nam a2200157Ia 4500
020			_a817986037X
082			_a307.7720954 _bYAD
100			_aYadav, Kumkum
245			_aTribals in Indian narratives
260			_aSimla _bIndian Institute of Advanced Study _c2003
300			_axvi,175p.
500			_aCONTENTS 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
890			_aIndia
891			_aSchool of Planning, CEPT Uni.
999			_c35301 _d35301