Continuities/departures :
Continuities/departures :
- 1st ed.
- Colombo : Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2011.
- ix, 165 pages ;
Contributed articles emanating from a conference organized by Women's Education and Research Centre, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
This volume contains a significant collection of essays that looks at contemporary Sri Lankan women's creative writing in English. These essays capture a range of interests, issues, voices and even texts and attest to a vibrant and creatively alive culture and literature that has through time evolved in many different directions. The continuities/departures and border crossings seen in the essays point to ways in which creative writing in English by contemporary Sri Lankan women can be read. The essays, demonstrating in their own way directions that new research can undertake in the intersecting fields of Sri Lankan English and Women's studies, are by Dinali Fernando, Dushyanthi Mendis, Ruhanie Perera, Tara Senanayaka, Sivamohan Sumathy, Pavithra Tantrigoda and Maithree Wickramasinghe.
9556651446 9789556651447
Sri Lankan literature (English)
Women and literature
820.82 / CON
Contributed articles emanating from a conference organized by Women's Education and Research Centre, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
This volume contains a significant collection of essays that looks at contemporary Sri Lankan women's creative writing in English. These essays capture a range of interests, issues, voices and even texts and attest to a vibrant and creatively alive culture and literature that has through time evolved in many different directions. The continuities/departures and border crossings seen in the essays point to ways in which creative writing in English by contemporary Sri Lankan women can be read. The essays, demonstrating in their own way directions that new research can undertake in the intersecting fields of Sri Lankan English and Women's studies, are by Dinali Fernando, Dushyanthi Mendis, Ruhanie Perera, Tara Senanayaka, Sivamohan Sumathy, Pavithra Tantrigoda and Maithree Wickramasinghe.
9556651446 9789556651447
Sri Lankan literature (English)
Women and literature
820.82 / CON