Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance & the Politics of Place (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures) - Softcover

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Salgado, Minoli

 
9780415653435: Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance & the Politics of Place (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415653436 ISBN 13: 9780415653435
Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

Focusing on ways in which cultural nationalism has influenced both the production and critical reception of texts, Salgado presents a detailed analysis of eight leading Sri Lankan writers - Michael Ondaatje, Romesh Gunasekera, Shyam Selvadurai, A. Sivanandan, Jean Arasanayagam, Carl Muller, James Goonewardene and Punyakante Wijenaike – to rigorously challenge the theoretical, cultural and political assumptions that pit ‘insider’ against ‘outsider’, ‘resident’ against ‘migrant’ and the ‘authentic’ against the ‘alien’. By interrogating the discourses of territoriality and boundary marking that have come into prominence since the start of the civil war, Salgado works to define a more nuanced and sensitive critical framework that actively reclaims marginalized voices and draws upon recent studies in migration and the diaspora to reconfigure the Sri Lankan critical terrain.

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Minoli Salgado

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415653436
ISBN 13 
9780415653435
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
232

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