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

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Leiden : BRILL, 2015.

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Series	Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English, 0924-1426 ; Volume 180
	Cross/cultures ; Volume 180.
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.
Summary	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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject	Sri Lankan fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	Sri Lankan fiction (English)
	Women authors.
	Sri Lankans -- Foreign countries.
	Sri Lankans -- Foreign countries.
	Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
	Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
	English fiction -- 20th century.
	English fiction.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	English fiction -- 21st century.
Chronological Term	21st century
	1900-2099
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Watkins, Alexandra. Problematic Identities in Women's Fiction of the Sri Lankan Diaspora. Leiden : BRILL, ©2015 9789004299252
ISBN	9789004299276
	9004299270
	9789004299252

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