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1st Edition

Global Sri Lankan Literature and Culture Dispatches from an Island in Transition and its Diaspora

Edited By Maryse Jayasuriya, Dinidu Karunanayake Copyright 2027

234 Pages

by Routledge

Description

This book recognizes and celebrates the emerging trends and new orientations of global Sri Lankan literature and culture in response to the island's complex postcolonial and postwar realities. While postcolonial politics continue to condition the lived experiences of present-day Sri Lankans both on the island and in the diaspora, they have become even more entangled in regional and global... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction: Mapping Global Sri Lankan Literature and Culture

Maryse Jayasuriya and Dinidu Karunanayake

1. The Cultural Life of Democracy: Notes on Popular Sovereignty, Culture and Arts in Sri Lanka’s Aragalaya

Harshana Rambukwella

2. “Chasing Queers with Cameras”: Objects, a “Prosthetic Man,” and the Impotent Witnessing of War in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Shermal Wijewardene

3. Writing in the Ruins of Mullivaikal: Shobasakthi’s Box: A Story Book

Anushiya Ramaswamy

4. (Re)Framing the Spectrum of Trauma(s) Experienced During the Sri-Lankan Civil War: A Critical Exploration of the Graphic “Non-fiction-fiction” Vanni

Antarleena Basu

5. Tracing Dissent: A Study of Simulated Gendered Memories in V. V. Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night

Dheebika P, S. P. Dhanavel and Milind Brahme

6. Disaster Writing in Minoli Salgado’s A Little Dust on the Eyes

Pavithra Tantrigoda

7. “We Are All Animals”: Multispecies Entanglements and More-than-Human Politics in Romesh Gunesekera’s Heaven’s Edge and Suncatcher

Thakshala Tissera

8. Romanticizing Caste in Gaadi and Alborada: An Analysis of Two Contemporary Sri Lankan Films

Kanchanakesi Warnapala

9. ‘Chronically Ill-Disabled-Diasporic-Mixed Race-Queer Femme of Color’: Spotlighting the Inscriptions of Intergenerational Trauma and Abuse Through a Reading of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s Memoir Dirty River

Radhika Sharma

10. Memories of Exile, Memory in Exile: The Sri Lankan Separatist Conflict in the Films of Pradeepan Raveendran

Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud and Paul Veyret

11. Racialized Hostipitality and Narrative Resistance in Sharon Bala’s The Boat People

Dharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe

12. “Hello, It’s Me, Auntie Netta! I am Calling from Abroad”: Aunties and Digital Diasporas in Nimmi Harasgama’s Online Performances

Sandamini Ranwalage

13. Poetry of Witness as a Human Rights Intervention: A Conversation with the Coeditors of Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala & English Poetry from Sri Lanka and Its Diasporas

Maryse Jayasuriya

14. On Journalists Becoming Detectives and Writers Becoming Truth-Seekers—A Chat with Shehan Karunatilaka

Dinidu Karunanayake

Editor(s)

Biography

Maryse Jayasuriya is Professor of English at Saint Louis University. She is the author of Terror and Reconciliation: Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature, 1983-2009 (2012), the editor of The Immigrant Experience: Critical Insights (2018), and guest-editor of Special Issues of South Asian Review on Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature.

Dinidu Karunanayake is Associate Professor of English at Elon University in North Carolina, USA, where he researches and teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglophone postcolonial literature and Asian American literature. His work has appeared in numerous venues including Journal of Postcolonial Writing and ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature.

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