Uprooting the Pumpkin

Selections from Sri Lankan Tamil Literature, 1950-2012
Herausgeber: Kanaganayakam, Chelva

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Produktbeschreibung

Voicing the agony, anxiety, and hardship of migration from different perspectives, this anthology of Sri Lankan Tamil literature is a significant contribution to the study of exile literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 142mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780199464678
• ISBN-10: 0199464677
• Artikelnr.: 47866193

Autorenporträt

(Late) Chelva Kanaganayakam, former professor, Department of English, University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowldegements
Introduction
POETRY
MAHAKAVI (19271971)
Ahalikai
The Chariot and the Moon
NEELAAVANAN (19311975)
Sleep
T. RAMALINGAM (19332008)
Caste and Lust
The Future
MURUGAIYAN (19352009)
Variations
Toil
SHANMUGAM SIVALINGAM (19362012)
At the Intersection
To the Spring Blossom of Polar Land
S. SIVASEGARAM (1942)
Ahalya
Butterflies of My Dreams
The Gecko
M.A. NUHMAN (1944)
Last Evening, This Morning
V.I.S. JAYAPALAN (1944)
Land of the Singing Fish
To a Childhood Sinhalese Friend
A. JESURASA (1946)
Vortex
M. PUSHPARAJAN (1947)
Phoenix
Uprooting
PUTHUVAI RATNATHURAI (1948)
December, A Thing of Beauty
Yearning
S. VILVARATNAM (19502006)
The Sea
The Moons Echo
Ki.Pi. ARAVINTHAN (1953)
Stare at the Sky
Dreams and the Sea
THIRUMAVALAVAN (1955)
River
The Weaver-birds Nest
SOLAIKKILI (1957)
The Story of a Golden River
CHERAN (1960)
Yaman
When I Die and Depart
Healing the Forest
CHELIYAN (1960)
On a Rainy Day
KARUNAGARAN (1963)
Whose Home?
VINOTHINI (1969)
The Storyteller
P. AHILAN (1970)
Lament of a Mother
Transience
NADCHATHRAN CHEV-INTHIYAN (1974)
Until My Wineglass is Empty
RASHMY (1974)
Calamity
ANAR (1974)
Absence
My Sisters Laughter Was Like a Bird in Flight
FAHEEMA JAHAN (1973)
After the Destruction
An Abandoned Soul
DRAMA
M. SHANMUGALINGAM (1931)
The Land of Our Parents
FICTION
THELIWATTE JOSEPH (1934)
Deformity
S. KATHIRGAMANATHAN (19421972)
They Can Only Sigh
C. YOGANATHAN (19422008)
The Hungry Ones
M.L.M. MANSOOR (1950)
Laments of the Purdah
SRITHARAN (1947)
Ramasamy
RANJAKUMAR (1959)
Kosalai
UMA VARATHARAJAN (1956)
The Advent of the King
KUNTHAVAI (1941)
The Dispossessed
A. RAVI (1960)
The Crow of Bremen Town
SIDDHARTHA CHE GUEVARA (1965)
Kamikaze
PARTHIPAN (1964)
The Island
KUMARMOORTHY (19562001)
The Last Chapter
CHANDRA RAVINDRAN (1963)
Childhood
SHOBASAKTHI (1967)
Friday
A. MUTTULINGAM (1937)
The American Girl
About the Editor and the Contributors