TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salgado,Minoli
TI  - Writing Sri Lanka: literature, resistance and the politics of place 
SN  - 9780415364188 (hardbook)
U1  - 080 
KW  - Sri Lankan literature (English)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Sri Lanka
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - fast
KW  - Literatur
KW  - swd
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Errata sheet enclosed
N2  - "Focusing on ways in which cultural nationalism has influenced both the production and critical reception of texts, Minoli Salgado offers 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 - and challenges 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 marginalised voices, and draws on recent studies in migration and the diaspora to reconfigure the Sri Lankan critical terrain."--Jacket
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0617/2006023103.html
ER  -