Plural Narratives of the Sri Lankan Nation in Manuka Wijesinghe's "Theravada Man"
In Theravada Man (2009), the second novel by Sri Lankan novelist and playwright Manuka Wijesinghe, mimesis takes over diegetic techniques, and dialogues become prominent, with the aim of effecting a poignant criticism of Sri Lankan ideologies and institutions, namely history and government, as well...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Routledge
[2016]
|
| In: |
Contemporary buddhism
Year: 2016, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 217-235 |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (Verlag) |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000naa a22000002 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | 1571902597 | ||
| 003 | DE-627 | ||
| 005 | 20180411134746.0 | ||
| 007 | cr uuu---uuuuu | ||
| 008 | 180411s2016 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a 10.1080/14639947.2016.1228328 |2 doi | |
| 035 | |a (DE-627)1571902597 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-576)501902597 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)BSZ501902597 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-627 |b ger |c DE-627 |e rda | ||
| 041 | |a eng | ||
| 084 | |a 0 |2 ssgn | ||
| 100 | 1 | |e VerfasserIn |0 (DE-588)105645153X |0 (DE-627)794713130 |0 (DE-576)412440989 |4 aut |a Alonso Breto, Isabel | |
| 109 | |a Alonso Breto, Isabel |a Alonso-Breto, Isabel | ||
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Plural Narratives of the Sri Lankan Nation in Manuka Wijesinghe's "Theravada Man" |c Isabel Alonso-Breto (Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain) |
| 264 | 1 | |c [2016] | |
| 336 | |a Text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a Computermedien |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a Online-Ressource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 520 | |a In Theravada Man (2009), the second novel by Sri Lankan novelist and playwright Manuka Wijesinghe, mimesis takes over diegetic techniques, and dialogues become prominent, with the aim of effecting a poignant criticism of Sri Lankan ideologies and institutions, namely history and government, as well as of religious and nationalist strictures. This article discusses the critique the novel addresses to the main character, a strict Theravada observant, and reads as a critique to relevant aspects of the country's political life: where the Iskolemahaththaya fails to see beyond the rationalism inherent to his understanding of Buddhism, the nation governments have systematically failed to acknowledge the plurality and diversity of Sri Lankan cultures. Thus, set in the Ceylon of the 1920s and 30s, Theravada Man explores the inherent contradictions and shortcomings of totalitarian systems of thought, and it does so through the inscription in the narrative of beliefs and philosophies which coexist with Theravada Buddhism, inhabiting the land before the advent of Buddhism and the alleged arrival of Aryans. This paper explores these aspects of the novel, interpreting them as a symptom of Wijesinghe's anti-essentialist agenda in political terms. | ||
| 773 | 0 | 8 | |i Enthalten in |t Contemporary buddhism |d Abingdon : Routledge, 2000 |g 17(2016), 2, Seite 217-235 |h Online-Ressource |w (DE-627)366386271 |w (DE-600)2113680-4 |w (DE-576)265627168 |x 1476-7953 |7 nnns |
| 773 | 1 | 8 | |g volume:17 |g year:2016 |g number:2 |g pages:217-235 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2016.1228328 |x Verlag |3 Volltext |
| 951 | |a AR | ||
| ELC | |a 1 | ||
| ITA | |a 1 |t 1 | ||
| LOK | |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 | ||
| LOK | |0 001 3005683664 | ||
| LOK | |0 003 DE-627 | ||
| LOK | |0 004 1571902597 | ||
| LOK | |0 005 20180411102859 | ||
| LOK | |0 008 180411||||||||||||||||ger||||||| | ||
| LOK | |0 040 |a DE-Tue135 |c DE-627 |d DE-Tue135 | ||
| LOK | |0 092 |o n | ||
| LOK | |0 852 |a DE-Tue135 | ||
| LOK | |0 852 1 |9 00 | ||
| LOK | |0 935 |a ixzs |a ixzo | ||
| ORI | |a SA-MARC-ixtheoa001.raw | ||
| REL | |a 1 | ||
| SUB | |a REL | ||