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Women novelists of the Sri Lankan diaspora make a significant contribution to the field of South Asian postcolonial studies. Their writing is critical and subversive, particularly concerned as it is with the problematic of identity. This book engages in insightful readings of nine novels by women writers of the Sri Lankan diaspora: Michelle de Kretser's The Hamilton Case (2003); Yasmine Gooneratne's A Change of Skies (1991), The Pleasures of Conquest (1996), and The Sweet and Simple Kind (2006); Chandani Lokugé's If the Moon Smiled (2000) and Turtle Nest (2003); Karen Roberts's July (2001); Roma Tearne's Mosquito (2007); and V.V. Ganeshananthan's Love Marriage (2008). These texts are set in Sri Lanka but also in contemporary Australia, England, Italy, Canada, and North America. They depict British colonialism, the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict, neocolonial touristic predation, and the double-consciousness of diaspora. Despite these different settings and preoccupations, however, this body of work reveals a consistent and vital concern with identity, as notably gendered and expressed through resonant images of mourning, melancholia, and other forms of psychic disturbance. This is a groundbreaking study of a neglected but powerful body of postcolonial fiction.

Sri Lankan diaspora. --- Sri Lankan literature (English) --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Women and literature --- Feminism and literature --- Sri Lankan literature --- Literature --- Women authors. --- Women authors --- Literature and feminism

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Terror and Reconciliation examines the response of Sri Lankan novelists, short story writers, and poets to the issues of terrorism, war, human rights, linguistic discrimination, and interethnic dialogue raised by the quarter-century long ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka and argues that their work demonstrates the potential of literature to contribute to reconciliation. This study will be of particular interest to scholars of South Asian Literature and Culture, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, and Peace Studies.

Sri Lankan literature (English) --- War in literature. --- Ethnic relations in literature. --- Reconciliation in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Sri Lanka --- In literature. --- Literature. --- Englisch. --- Literatur. --- Bürgerkrieg. --- 1900-2099. --- Sri Lanka. --- Sri Lankan literature (English). --- English literature --- Ceylonese authors --- Shri Lanka --- Lanka --- Serendib --- Taprobane --- Cellao --- Zeilan --- Serendip --- Sī Langkā --- Sri Lanka Prajathanthrika Samajavadi Janarajaya --- Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka --- Śrīlaṅkā --- Ilaṅkai --- Sri Lankan literature --- Ceylon

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Contributed papers presented at a seminar held on January 30, 2004, at the French Institute of Pondicherry.

Tamil literature --- Authors, Tamil --- Dalit authors --- History and criticism --- Tamil authors --- Indic literature --- Sri Lankan literature --- Tamil contemporary literature --- dalit people --- Indian literature --- caste system

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La Bibliotheca Malabarica est un catalogue annoté de la bibliothèque de manuscrits tamouls collectés par le missionaire luthérien allemand Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg pendant les deux premières années qu’il passa en Inde (1706–1708). La troisième section de ce catalogue, qui comprend 119 entrées incluant des ouvrages d’obédience hindoue et jaïne, offre un aperçu fascinant des ouvrages de la littérature tamoule en circulation à la veille du colonialisme. L’introduction évalue le caractère de la bibliothèque de Ziegenbalg dans le contexte des sources desquelles il a obtenu ses manuscrits. Will Sweetman a ensuite accompagné sa traduction de notes qui identifient les ouvrages de la collection et qui commentent le point de vue de Ziegenbalg sur ceux-ci. Cet ouvrage identifie pour la première fois le Tirikāla cakkaram, texte qui contribua fortement à la formation du point de vue de Ziegenbalg sur l’hindouisme, depuis ses premières lettres écrites d’Inde jusqu’à son magnum opus, le Genealogia der malabarischen Götter (1713). Un chapitre de conclusion considère les autres ouvrages tamouls mentionnés par Ziegenbalg dans ses écrits postérieurs à 1708. The Bibliotheca Malabarica is an annotated catalogue of Tamil manuscripts collected by the missionary Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg during his first two years in India (1706–1708). The third section of this catalogue, consisting of 119 entries covering works of Hindu and Jaina provenance, provides a fascinating insight into Tamil literary works in wide circulation on the eve of colonialism. The introduction assesses the character of Ziegenbalg’s library in the context of the sources from which he obtained manuscripts. Will Sweetman’s translation is then augmented by annotations which identify the works and comment on Ziegenbalg’s view of them. It identifies for the first time one text — the Tirikāla cakkaram — which was formative for Ziegenbalg’s view of Hinduism from his earliest letters from India to his magnum opus, the Genealogia…

Tamil literature --- Hinduism --- Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus, --- Library --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- Indic literature --- Sri Lankan literature --- Cīkan̲pālku, --- Cīkan̲pālku, Partolōmiyō, --- Partolōmiyō, Cīkan̲pālku, --- Ziegenbalg, Bartholomäus, --- Ziegenbalgh, Bartholomew, --- Zigenbalk, Bartroḿ, --- Tamil literature - Bibliography - Catalogs --- Hinduism - India, South - Bibliography - Catalogs --- Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus, - 1683-1719 - Library - Catalogs --- manuscript culture --- Orientalism --- mission history --- Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus, - 1683-1719