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Author : D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Kaleidoscope written by D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neelanjana Banerjee
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 155728931X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Indivisible written by Neelanjana Banerjee and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first anthology of its kind, Indivisible brings together forty-nine American poets who trace their roots to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Featuring award-winning poets including Meena Alexander, Agha Shahid Ali, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Vijay Seshadri, here are poets who share a long history of grappling with a multiplicity of languages, cultures, and faiths. The poems gathered here take us from basketball courts to Bollywood, from the Grand Canyon to sugar plantations, and from Hindu-Muslim riots in India to anti-immigrant attacks on the streets of post–9/11 America. Showcasing a diversity of forms, from traditional ghazals and sestinas to free verse, experimental writing, and slam poetry, Indivisible presents 141 poems by authors who are rewriting the cultural and literary landscape of their time and their place. Includes biographies of each poet.
Author : Melanie A. Murray
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042026960
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Island Paradise written by Melanie A. Murray and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colonial discourse has perpetuated the literary notion of islands as paradisal. This study explores how the notions of island paradise have been represented in European literature, the oral and literary indigenous traditions of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka, a colonial literary influence in these islands, and the literary experience after independence in these nations. Persistent themes of colonial narratives foreground the aesthetic and ignore the workforce in a representation of island space as idealized, insular, and vulnerable to conquest; an ideal space for management and control. English landscape has been replicated in islands through literature and in reality - the 'Great House' being an ideological symbol of power. Island Paradise: The Myth investigates how these entrenched notions of paradise, which islands have traditionally represented metonymically, are contested in the works of four postcolonial authors: Jamaica Kincaid, Lawrence Scott, Romesh Gunesekera, and Jean Arasanayagam, from the island nations of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka. It analyzes texts which focus on gardens, island space, and houses to examine how these motifs are used to re-vision colonial/contested sites. This book examines the relationship between landscape and identity and, with reference to Homi K. Bhabha, considers how these writers offer an alternative space for negotiating the ambivalence of hybridity.
Author : Eugene Benson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134468474
Total Pages : 2713 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English written by Eugene Benson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 2713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
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Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Anthology of Contemporary Sri Lankan Short Stories in English written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. W. R. de A. Samarasinghe
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810832800
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Sri Lanka written by S. W. R. de A. Samarasinghe and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Sri Lanka's geography, people, early history, foreign rule, independence, and modern history is followed by a dictionary covering the people, places, and events that have shaped the country. Includes a detailed chronology, statistical tables, graphs, appendices, and a detailed bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Rajiva Wijesinha
Publisher : NBT India
ISBN 13 : 9788123750446
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Bridging Connections: An Anthology Of Sri Lankan Short Stories written by Rajiva Wijesinha and published by NBT India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories in English from Sri Lanka that brings together writing in all three Sri Lankan languages: Sinhala, Tamil and English.
Author : Rajeev S. Patke
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Postcolonial
ISBN 13 : 0199298882
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Postcolonial Poetry in English written by Rajeev S. Patke and published by Oxford Studies in Postcolonial. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an introductory survey of contemporary poetry in English from all the regions that have developed into modern nations from the former British Empire. It is ideally suited for readers interested in world writing in English, contemporary literature, postcolonial writing, cultural studies, and postmodern culture.
Author : Minoli Salgado
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134220189
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Writing Sri Lanka written by Minoli Salgado and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Wes Davis
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry written by Wes Davis and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before has there been a single-volume anthology of modern Irish poetry so significant and groundbreaking as An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry. Collected here is a comprehensive representation of Irish poetic achievement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from poets such as Austin Clarke and Samuel Beckett who were writing while Yeats and Joyce were still living; to those who came of age in the turbulent âe(tm)60s as sectarian violence escalated, including Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley; to a new generation of Irish writers, represented by such diverse, interesting voices as David Wheatley (born 1970) and Sinéad Morrissey (born 1972).Scholar and editor Wes Davis has chosen work by more than fifty leading modern and contemporary Irish poets. Each poet is represented by a generous number of poems (there are nearly 800 poems in the anthology). The editorâe(tm)s selection includes work by world-renowned poets, including a couple of Nobel Prize winners, as well as work by poets whose careers may be less well known to the general public; by poets writing in English; and by several working in the Irish language (Gaelic selections appear in translation). Accompanying the selections are a general introduction that provides a historical overview, informative short essays on each poet, and helpful notesâe"all prepared by the editor.
Author : Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231075084
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature written by Salma Khadra Jayyusi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive anthology traces the written record of a people beset by nearly a century of conflict, exile, and dispersal. This collection includes poetry, fiction, and personal narratives by both establishing and rising Palestinian creative writers of the modern period.
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Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Journal of Commonwealth Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.
Author : Braj Kachru
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441157786
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Collected Works of Braj B. Kachru written by Braj Kachru and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Braj Kachru (b. 1932) has pioneered, shaped and defined the scholarly field of world Englishes. He is the founder and co-editor of World Englishes, the associate editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language and contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language. His research on world Englishes, the Kashmiri language and literature, and theoretical and applied studies on language and society has resulted in more than 25 authored and edited volumes and more than 100 research papers, review articles, and reviews. The third volume of these Collected Works details Kachru's key studies from the 19070s to 1990s in the areas of linguistics, multilingualism and language contact, including some of his work on language in India and South Asia.
Author : Lionel Wee
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027228353
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Politics of English written by Lionel Wee and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together contributions that explore the increasingly important roles that English plays in Asia, including its contribution to economic growth, national imaginaries and creative writing. These are issues that are political in a broad sense, but the diversity of Asian contexts also means that the social, political and cultural ramifications of the spread of English into Asia will have to be understood in relation to the challenges facing specific societies. The chapters in the book collectively illustrate this diversity by focusing on countries from South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific. Each country has two contributions devoted to it: one paper provides an overview of the country s language policy and its positioning of English, and another provides a critical discussion of creative expressions involving the use of English. Taken together, the papers in the volume detail the most recent developments concerning the politics of English in Asia."
Author : W. D. Lakshman
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781560727842
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (278 download)
Download or read book Sri Lanka's Development Since Independence written by W. D. Lakshman and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social, political, economic and constitutional developments are considered as well as the evolution of science and arts in the development process. This is in accordance with the Sri Lankan tradition of seeing the world as a connected whole."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Paolo Brusasco
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 3838200756
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Writing Within / Without / About Sri Lanka written by Paolo Brusasco and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paola Brusasco's study offers an original insight into Sri Lankan literature in English and an exploration of cultural, social, and linguistic issues at the basis of the country's ethnic conflict. By focussing on two distinctive and representative writers, both Burghers, yet with different personal histories, Brusasco confronts issues of cartography, history, and language, all contributing to a specific definition of identity. Both Ondaatje and Muller are outsiders, the former because of his diasporic existence, the latter because of his excentricity within the reality of a divided country where the legacy of British colonialism and the process of redefinition following independence in 1948, as well as matters of geography and history, become crucial to writers.
Author : Richard Schechner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521339155
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (391 download)
Download or read book By Means of Performance written by Richard Schechner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-05-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of performance studies embraces performance behaviour of all kinds and in all contexts, from everyday life to high ceremony. This volume investigates a wide range of performance behaviour - dance, ritual, conflict situation, sports, storytelling and display behaviour - in a variety of circumstances and cultures. It considers such issues as the relationship between training and the finished performance; whether performance behaviour is universal or culturally specific; and the relationships between ritual aesthetics, popular entertainment and religion, and sports and theatre and dance. The volume brings together essays from leading anthropologists, artists and performance theorists to provide a definitive introduction to the burgeoning field of performance studies. It will be of value to scholars, teachers and students of anthropology, theatre, folklore, semiotics and performance studies.
