| Writing Within/Without/About Sri Lanka: Discourses of Cartography, History and Translation in Selected Works by Michael Ondaatje and Carl Muller Contributor(s): Brusasco, Paola (Author) |
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ISBN: 3838200756 ISBN-13: 9783838200750 Publisher: Ibidem Press OUR PRICE: $38.61 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - Indic |
| Series: Studies in English Literatures |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.58 lbs) 218 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |