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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.

Caribbean literature --- Sri Lankan literature --- Paradise in literature. --- Caribbean literature. --- Sri Lankan literature. --- History and criticism. --- 1900-1999

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Politics and literature --- Sri Lankan literature (English) --- History --- History and criticism

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Tamil literature --- Tamil language --- Tamil language. --- Tamil literature. --- Malabar language --- Indic literature --- Sri Lankan literature --- Dravidian languages

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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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Tamil literature --- -History and criticism --- -Indic literature --- Sri Lankan literature --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Tamil literature - History and criticism