Social Realism and the Myth of the Middle Class:

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-66
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Realism

Tendulkar, Vijay (1928–2008)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aparna Dharwadker
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Realism ◽  
Aesthetics And Politics ◽  
Urban Settings ◽  
Fiction Writer

Vijay Tendulkar was an Indian playwright, screen and television writer, literary essayist, fiction writer, political journalist, and social commentator whose work in multiple genres represents one of the most versatile and distinguished creative careers of the post-independence period shaped broadly by the aesthetics and politics of modernism. From the early 1950s until his death in 2008, he was a singularly influential theatre figure in Marathi—the principal language of the state of Maharashtra—which has a millennium-long literary history and more than seventy million speakers. Tendulkar’s screenplays, in contrast, were written for films in Hindi, India’s majority language and the preferred medium of the world’s largest film industry. In the urban as well as non-urban settings of his plays and screenplays, he employed forms of social realism tempered with powerfully poetic structures of imagery, thought, and experience, and emerged as independent India’s first ‘national’ playwright because of the depth and breadth of his engagement with the particulars of lower- and middle-class life in the postcolonial city.

scholarly journals Rethinking Social Realism in Gopal Prasad Rimal’s Masan

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-92
Author(s):  
Mahendra Kumar Budhathoki
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Social Realism ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Class Society ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Verbal Data

This paper exposes the issues of urban middle class society of Nepal during the late Rana period in Gopal Prasad Rimal’s play Masan (Cremation Ground). The use of social realism in literature like in this play provides the actual social events and issues to expose within the same society and to other society. The research approach adopted includes social realism as a theoretical approach, textual analysis as a research method and note-taking as a research tool for verbal-data collection from the text. The findings provide evidence that the author portrays the real setting (Krishna’s ordinary room) of educated middle class actual family and social values of patriarchal society (Helen wishes bearing a child to run Krishna’s family line and open the heaven’s gate), real native tongue by the characters Krishna, Helen, Bhotu, Bride, maid of the play. This study explored tensions and struggles of man Krishna and woman Helen in real society; the exploitation of Helen’s body as a sex toy by preventing her bearing a child and the practice of polygamy are considered as social realistic issues in Nepali society. Helen determines to revolt against the sexist domination by separating her way from Krishna’s. The paper concludes that the author realistically portrays the reality of social life of Nepal before 2007B.S. in the play. This paper has shown the application of social realism in a Nepali play, and it presents how social realism theory can be applied in realistic literature, and understood the particular society.

scholarly journals Counterspaces of Resistance: Peter Carey’s Bliss

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Barbara Klonowska
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Social Realism ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Alternative Lifestyle ◽  
Literary Convention ◽  
Intrinsic Feature

The article discusses how Peter Carey’s 1980 novel Bliss constructs and exam- ines various counterspaces both in and beyond the text. First, it shows how the plot jux- taposes the consumerist middle-class suburban model of life with an alternative lifestyle, presenting the attractions and limitations of both, yet preferring rather the latter. Secondly, at the level of literary convention, the text activates the strategies of comic social realism only to juxtapose them with elements of fantasy, fairy tale and myth, thus undermining the representational powers of the former and hinting at other possibilities of representation. Finally, the film adaptation of the novel shows how even rebellious or critical texts may become ‘domesticated’ or absorbed by the dominating logic of cultural production, thus once again demonstrating the ambivalent position of works of art in general, and this nov- el in particular. The article argues that the ambivalence engrained in the text is an intrinsic feature, not only of Australian culture or heterotopias but of most cultural products and practices inevitably entangled in the double logic of conforming and resistance.

The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Relli Shechter
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class
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