Problematic Identities in Women's Fiction of the Sri Lankan Diaspora.

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Watkins, Alexandra
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden : BRILL, 2015.
Series:Cross/cultures ; Volume 180.
Subjects:
1900-2099
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.
Identité dans la littérature.
Roman anglais > 20e siècle.
Roman anglais > 21e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
Sri Lankans > Foreign countries
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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