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Diasporic women writers’ contributions represent a break through and have opened significant new perspectives in the history of Tamil literary tradition. Identity consciousness and the reality of detachment interact at various levels in their writings. While the writings have essentially complicated and questioned identities, they have also led to a dynamic rethinking on the issue of race, gender, ethnicity, colour, caste and sexuality.
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This publication is based on papers presented at a conference on Gender organized by WERC. The researchers have identified topics representing culture, and political formations of both the colonial and post colonial South Asia.
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This anthology collects, for the first time, some of the earliest writing in English by women in Sri Lanka (Ceylon). From British and American women travellers such as Bella Woolf, Constance Gordon Cummings and Carolyn Cornor who wrote of their impressions and experiences of colonial Ceylon, to creative writings of Jessie, Alice and Jane Goonetileke, Rosalind Mendis, Mabel Fernando and Ina Trimmer- early Sri Lankan women writers in English.
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The fiction and poetry published in English by Sri Lankan women living in the island and outside of it between 1948-2000 has been documented in this publication.
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The publication is on the Tamil writings of the colonial period. It has two sections. One deals with literature fiction, and the other with non-literary writing.
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This book is a study of the immensely rich verbal arts of lullabies and dirges that encompasses the socio-linguistic, ethnographic, anthropological and sociological aspects of Sri Lanka’s folklore.
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The book makes and attempt to capture both the structural and emotional disturbances that affect women and children during times of war. While undertaking a sociological inquiry into the lives of the women and children, inevitably it enters into a political focus. The role of the state or rather the complicity of the state in creating coercive patterns of governance, also becomes visible in the sideline.
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The book is divided in to four parts. The first part deals with the origin, history and application of Thesawalamai. The second part contains the Law of persons. The third part discusses the Law of property and fourth part treats the Law of Obligations. The Hindu law of Temporalities is discussed in the appendix.
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The study examines the psychological impact of employment and living circumstances of the women workers in Rathmalana, Katunayake, Biyagama, Koggala and Pallekele. In relation to their employment, high work pressure exacerbated somatic and depressive symptom levels, with lack of autonomy and role ambiguity affecting them to lesser extent. Apart from employment, their life circumstances living away from home, living conditions, community living, disruption to work and being the main family income provider were also found
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The book describes the emergence and the institutionalization of political violence in Southern Sri Lanka, and the dynamics of the extensive waves of political violence in that region in the late 1980s. It deals with both the processes of violence in the South, and their consequences, specifically focussing on how political violence impacted upon female headed households.
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