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Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Sri Lanka;nationalism in literature;culture in literature;English literature;English fiction;nationalism in music;expatriates;Michael Ondaatje;Running in the family;Anil's ghost;Cinnamon peeler;Shyam Selvadurai;Funny boy;M.I.A. (Musician);literary criticism;subalterns;expatriate musicians;expatriate writers;gays in literature
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Imagining Sri Lanka, Derick Kirishan Ariyam
Imagining Sri Lanka, Derick Kirishan Ariyam
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
Analyzes the works of three Sri Lankan expatriates, the writers, Shyam Selvadurai and Michael Ondaatje, and the artist, M.I.A., giving particular attention to Selvadurai's Funny Boy and Ondaatje's Running in the Family, Anil's Ghost, and The Cinnamon Peeler. Though all three have been charged as "inauthentic" due to their dislocated positions, uncovers the various productive and complicated ways Sri Lanka has been configured by those outside its shores.