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By interrogating the discourses of territoriality and boundary marking that have come into prominence since the start of the civil war, Salgado works to define a more nuanced and sensitive critical framework that actively reclaims marginalized voices and draws upon recent studies in migration and the diaspora to reconfigure the Sri Lankan critical terrain.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50721562165521,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50721562427665,"sku":"NGR9780415653435","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52521681944849,"sku":"NLS9780415653435","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0415653436.jpg?v=1751166088"},{"product_id":"writing-sri-lanka-book-minoli-salgado-9780415364188","title":"Writing Sri Lanka","description":"Focusing on ways in which cultural nationalism has influenced both the production and critical reception of texts, Salgado presents a detailed analysis of eight leading Sri Lankan writers - Michael Ondaatje, Romesh Gunasekera, Shyam Selvadurai, A. 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Ambitious in cultural and conceptual reach, Witness Literature invokes a range of texts from within the nations studied and diasporic writers: eyewitness accounts and survivor stories gathered in Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields; memoirs and autobiographies like François Bizot’s The Gate and Loung Ung's First They Killed My Father; Sanam Maher’s biography of the internet star Qandeel Baloch; pseudonymous work that reconfigures the authorising identity of the witness;  novels by diasporic writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Vaddey Ratner and Anuk Arudpragasam; fabricated testimony and fictive reconstructions of real events including Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida; and such works as Elif Shafak's Honour, Salman Rushdie's Shame and Shalimar the Clown.  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