TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shamenaz Bano
PY  - 2020
CY  - München, Germany
PB  - GRIN Verlag
SN  - 9783346249906
TI  - Sri Lankan Women Writers Finding Space Within Political Turmoil. Punyakante Wijenaike, Kumari Jayawardena, Nira Wickramsinghe, Rosemary Rogers and Thisuri Wanniarchchi
T2  - Subaltern Studies
UR  - https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/931418
N2  - Sri Lanka is a country which has witnessed tremendous political upheavals since ages. Although now, peace has been restored to the lands still there are many issues which have to be sorted out. Though an under develop country, but Sri Lanka was the first country to have given the world first woman Prime Minister, Srinivaso Bhandarnaike.    Women writing in Sri Lanka began in 1928 when Rosalind Mendis published her first novel, The Mystery of a Tragedy published by Arthur Stockwell of London. The novel was not so successful and it did not pave the way to inspire other women to take up writing as a career. Women writing did not flourish in Sri Lanka due to many reasons but over the last three decades, it has witnessed a new wave of women writers trying to carve their niche in the world of English writing as there has been tremendous flow of women writers. Vijeta Fernando writes, ‘a half a century long drought followed before creative writing, especially by women, could take root and flourish in the island country.’ So the writing culture including both men and women developed in Sri Lanka in the postcolonial period.    
KW  - Sri Lankan Women Writers, Punyakante Wijenaike, Kumari Jayawardena, Nira Wickramsinghe, Rosemary Rogers & Thisuri Wanniarchchi, Post-colonial period, Political turmoil
LA  - English
ER  -