Problematic Identities in Women's Fiction of the Sri Lankan Diaspora.
By: Watkins, Alexandra.
Material type: BookSeries: Cross/cultures: Volume 180.Publisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2015Description: 1 online resource (244 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004299276; 9004299270.Subject(s): Sri Lankan fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Sri Lankans -- Foreign countries | Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature | English fiction -- 20th century | English fiction -- 21st century | English fiction | Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature | Sri Lankans -- Foreign countries | LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh | 1900-2099Genre/Form: Electronic books. | Criticism, interpretation, etc.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Problematic Identities in Women's Fiction of the Sri Lankan Diaspora.DDC classification: 809.89287 Online resources: EBSCOhostItem type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Problematic Identities in Women's Fiction of the Sri Lankan Diaspora; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Mimicry and Detection:Dismantling Identity in Michellede Kretser's The Hamilton Case; 2: In Fear of Monsters:Women's Identities and the Cultof Domesticity in British Ceylon; 3: Combatting Myths:Racial and Cultural Identityin Postcolonial Sri Lanka; 4: Chandani Lokugé and Yasmine Gooneratne: Deconstructing Postcolonial Tourism, Exoticism, and Colonial Simulacra; 5: Diasporic Identities:Inscriptions of Celebration and Psychic Trauma in Western Locations.
'Pretty Little Tales' of Substance: A ConclusionWorks Cited; Index.
Watkins' Problematic Identities examines nine novels by women writers of the Sri Lankan diaspora. Her study reveals identity in this fiction as notably gendered and expressed through resonant images of mourning, melancholia, and other forms of psychic disturbance.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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