The 21st Century Postcolonial: Issues and Challenges in Literature and Language

The 21st Century Postcolonial: Issues and Challenges in Literature and Language was the 6th conference in SLACLALS'  past conference list which held from 5th to 7th August 2011, in 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”

Programme

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