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 litterateurs, 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.
| ISBN: | 9780199464678 |
| Publication date: | 18th February 2016 |
| Author: | C Kanaganayakam |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP India |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 296 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: postcolonial literature |