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Author Ricci, Ronit, author

Title Banishment and belonging : exile and diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon / Ronit Ricci
Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 282 pages)
Series Asian connections
Contents Diasporic crossing : Malay writing in nineteenth-century Ceylon -- Remembering Java -- "Ceyloned" : the view from the other shore -- Exilic journeys in time, place and writing -- Nabi Adam : the paradigmatic exile -- Banishment and inter-religious encounters : a Malay Ramayana -- Ceylon Malays : military and literary paths -- Malay writing in Ceylon : roots and routes
Summary "Lanka, Ceylon, Sarandib: merely three disparate names for a single island? Perhaps. Yet the three diverge in the historical echoes, literary cultures, maps and memories they evoke. Names that have intersected and overlapped - in a treatise, a poem, a document - only to go their own ways. But despite different trajectories, all three are tied to narratives of banishment and exile. Ronit Ricci suggests that the island served as a concrete exilic site as well as a metaphor for imagining exile across religions, languages, space and time: Sarandib, where Adam was banished from Paradise; Lanka, where Sita languished in captivity; and Ceylon, faraway island of exile for Indonesian royalty under colonialism. Utilising Malay manuscripts and documents from Sri Lanka, Javanese chronicles, and Dutch and British sources, Ricci explores histories and imaginings of displacement related to the island through a study of the Sri Lankan Malays and their connections to an exilic past"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 06, 2020)
Subject Malay literature -- Sri Lanka -- History and criticism
Exile (Punishment) in literature.
Exile (Punishment) in literature
Malay literature
Sri Lanka
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019035872
ISBN 9781108648189
1108648185