Continuities/departures :
Material type: TextPublication details: Colombo : Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2011Edition: 1st edDescription: ix, 165 pagesISBN: 9556651446; 9789556651447 Subject(s): Sri Lankan literature (English) | Women and literatureDDC classification: 820.82 Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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820.8 NOR The Norton anthology of literature by women : the traditions in English | 820.8 NOR The Norton anthology of English literature / | 820.80917124 ARO The Arnold anthology of post-Colonial literatures in English | 820.82 CON Continuities/departures : | 820.9 DRA An Approach to English Literature | 820.9 ELI The Sacred Wood | 820.9 ELI The Sacred Wood |
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.
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