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Banishment and Belonging - Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon (Paperback)
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Banishment and Belonging - Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon (Paperback)
Series: Asian Connections
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Lanka, Ceylon, Sarandib: merely three disparate names for a single
island? Perhaps. Yet the three diverge in the historical echoes,
literary cultures, maps and memories they evoke. Names that have
intersected and overlapped - in a treatise, a poem, a document -
only to go their own ways. But despite different trajectories, all
three are tied to narratives of banishment and exile. Ronit Ricci
suggests that the island served as a concrete exilic site as well
as a metaphor for imagining exile across religions, languages,
space and time: Sarandib, where Adam was banished from Paradise;
Lanka, where Sita languished in captivity; and Ceylon, faraway
island of exile for Indonesian royalty under colonialism. Utilising
Malay manuscripts and documents from Sri Lanka, Javanese
chronicles, and Dutch and British sources, Ricci explores histories
and imaginings of displacement related to the island through a
study of the Sri Lankan Malays and their connections to an exilic
past.
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