The 21st Century Postcolonial: Issues and Challenges in Literature and Language
The 21st Century Postcolonial: Issues and Challenges in Literature and Language, the 6th SLACLALS conference held from 5-7 August, 2011, at Sri Lanka Foundation Institute (SLFI), 100, Independence Square, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka.
Abstracts Accepted for the 6th SLACLALS Conference
Plenaries
- Ashley Halpé “Interrogating ‘Postcolonial’—Is the Concept Still Valid?”
- Pramod Nayar, “The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Knowing Subalternity and the Culture of Human Rights”
- Edwin Thumboo and Thiru Kandiah, “Re-cognizing the Linguistics of Post-colonial Literary Creativity in English”
Other Academic Papers
- Liyanage Amarakeerthi, “Radical Traditionalism: Alternative Modes of Representation in the Modern Sinhala Short Story”
- Chandana Dissanayake. “Vanished Trails: Issues and Challenges in Reinterpreting R.L. Spittel’s Text in The 21st Century”
- Sunil Govinnage, “Migrant Writings from Down Under: Some Observations on Multicultural Writings in Australia”
- Manique Gunesekera, “The 21st Century Postcolonial: Issues and Challenges in Syllabus Design”
- Gayathri Hewagama, “Narayan Writes Back: The Anti-Imperial Semiotics of Order-Disorder-Order in The Painter of Signs”
- Rukshan Ibrahim, “Deconstructing Language Standards for Effective Language Teaching”
- Maduranga Kalugampitiya, “The Need to Go Beyond Linguistics for an Effective and Meaningful Study of Language: The Case of Veddah Language Studies”
- Carol Leon, “The 21st Century Postcolonial: Issues and Challenges Faced by the Diasporic Self and Community”
- Lal Meddawattegedera, “Pumping Iron: The Question of Masculinity in Blue Stories for Adults”
- Vihanga Perera, “The ‘Real’ Mark Wilde: Notes from a Quest for an ‘Absent’ Writer”
- Sumathy Sivamohan, “’It Is Not About Race’: Reading Shehan Karunatilaka’s Novel Chinaman Against the Grain”
- Mahendran Thirivarangan, “Writing Jaffna: A. Santhan’s Presentation of Histories and Identities in The Whirlwind”
- Kanchanakesi Warnapala “Landscapes of Desire: The Problematic Construction of Ceylon/ Sri Lanka As a Picturesque Site”
- Maithree Wickramasinghe, “Methodologies for Feminist/Postcolonial Critiques”