| Uprooting the Pumpkin: Selections from Sri Lankan Tamil Literature, 1950-2012 Contributor(s): Kanaganayakam, Chelva (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0199464677 ISBN-13: 9780199464678 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Asian - General |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.6" W x 8.4" (0.55 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The socio-political transformation of Sri Lanka that began in the 1970s, and continued for several decades thereafter, has been a major factor in shaping a literature that brought new and innovative forms of expression. This anthology brings together around forty poems, fifteen short stories, and one play in translation by eminent Sri Lankan literateurs, scholars, and translators dealing with Sri Lankan life at home and abroad spanning a period of sixty years. Voicing the agony, anxiety, and hardship of migration from different perspectives, this broadly representative collection is an important contribution to the study of exile literature. |