Writing and reading Sri Lanka: shifting politics of cultural translation, consumption, and the implied reader  

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Ranasinha, Ruvani

Jenis: Article from Article
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature vol. 48 no. 1 (Mar. 2013), page 27-39.
Topik: Diasporic fiction; global markets; political violence; readerships; Sri Lanka
Fulltext: Writing and reading Sri Lanka.pdf (576.07KB)

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This article seeks to explore the politics of diasporic Sri Lankan fiction in relation to global markets and readerships. It argues for a revision of a long-standing notion of the informed reader in the Euro-American tradition in line with the rise of postcolonial literature. It explores the politics of linguistic and cultural “untranslatability” primarily in relation to Romesh Gunesekera’s fiction, and demonstrates how such diasporic novels problematize the nature of readership, as well as the tension between aesthetics and politics in the literary text. It asks to what extent are the differing responses to diasporic, intercultural texts explicable in terms of differing “horizons of expectations” of diverse, multi-levelled readerships? If so, how and why has this changed over the last decade?

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