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Untouchable is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand published in 1935. The novel established Anand as one of India's leading English authors. [1] The book was inspired by his aunt's experience of being ostracized for sharing a meal with a Muslim woman. [2] [3] The plot of this book, Anand's first, revolves around the argument for eradicating the caste ...
Untouchable, UK title of the French feature film The Intouchables (2011) Untouchable (2019 film) , a documentary about the film producer Harvey Weinstein The Untouchable (film) , a 2006 feature film directed by Benoît Jacquot
[1] [2] [3] He became known for his protest novel Untouchable (1935), which was followed by other works on the Indian poor such as Coolie (1936) and Two Leaves and a Bud (1937). [4] He is also noted for being among the first writers to incorporate Punjabi and Hindustani idioms into English, [ 5 ] and was a recipient of the civilian honour of ...
The novel also portrays Zaidah's aspirations and career as a female academic, the challenges she faces as a high-educated woman and free spirit. By the end of the novel, Zaidah, Raiman, and Henry find that their past is intertwined in the colonial history in Borneo. She and Henry marry after he converts to Islam. [4]
7.26.2021: I've added a section on some of the debates surrounding the novel within critical scholarship (e.g., representations of the dalit community and of Gandhi). This article would benefit from more on postcolonial approaches and literary themes within the novel (e.g., the role of clothing and postcolonial hybridity).
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Halima Khatun (25 August 1933 – 3 July 2018) [1] was a Bangladeshi activist, writer and academic. She took part in Bengali Language Movement in 1952 along with other activists including Rawshan Ara Bachchu. [2] She was the recipient of Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1981 and Ekushey Padak posthumously in 2019. [3] [4]
Kurniawan has insisted that Beauty Is a Wound is neither a historical novel nor a book about Indonesian history. Kurniawan's style of "approaching social concerns at an angle rather than head-on, with hefty doses of surrealism and wry humour" also draws comparisons to Haruki Murakami . [ 5 ]