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Research paper thumbnail of Making Meaning of the (Ab)normal Body

Routledge eBooks, Feb 29, 2024

Research paper thumbnail of Re-Narrating the Postcolonial Subject within Neo-Liberal Spaces: A Study on the Role of Travel as Depicted in the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel

LITINFINITE JOURNAL, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Broken Bodies, Breaking Boundaries: Representations of Bodies with Disabilities in Sri Lankan English Literature

This study critically interrogates the representations of bodies with disabilities in Sri Lankan ... more This study critically interrogates the representations of bodies with disabilities in Sri Lankan English novels as sites of immense possibilities that provide an in-depth engagement with hegemonic constructions/ normative readings of "traditional" Sri Lankan/South Asian identities. Studies on Sri Lankan English literature have analysed portrayals of gender, ethnic and racial identities, creating a huge lacuna in research that explores its depiction of disabilities. Thus, this study aims to critically examine the representations of bodies with disabilities in the Sri Lankan English novels, <em>Anil's Ghost</em> by Michael Ondaatje and <em>The Road from Elephant Pass</em> by Nihal de Silva to argue that, such bodies can be marked as new epistemic spaces where the hegemonic understandings of gender, ethnicity and knowledge are challenged, demanding in that process a re-negotiation of the traditional identity markers that are considered unassailable...

Research paper thumbnail of Making Meaning of the (Ab)normal Body

Routledge eBooks, Feb 29, 2024

Research paper thumbnail of Re-Narrating the Postcolonial Subject within Neo-Liberal Spaces: A Study on the Role of Travel as Depicted in the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel

LITINFINITE JOURNAL, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Broken Bodies, Breaking Boundaries: Representations of Bodies with Disabilities in Sri Lankan English Literature

This study critically interrogates the representations of bodies with disabilities in Sri Lankan ... more This study critically interrogates the representations of bodies with disabilities in Sri Lankan English novels as sites of immense possibilities that provide an in-depth engagement with hegemonic constructions/ normative readings of "traditional" Sri Lankan/South Asian identities. Studies on Sri Lankan English literature have analysed portrayals of gender, ethnic and racial identities, creating a huge lacuna in research that explores its depiction of disabilities. Thus, this study aims to critically examine the representations of bodies with disabilities in the Sri Lankan English novels, <em>Anil's Ghost</em> by Michael Ondaatje and <em>The Road from Elephant Pass</em> by Nihal de Silva to argue that, such bodies can be marked as new epistemic spaces where the hegemonic understandings of gender, ethnicity and knowledge are challenged, demanding in that process a re-negotiation of the traditional identity markers that are considered unassailable...

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