Uprooting the Pumpkin
Selections from Tamil Literature in Sri Lanka
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ISBN:
9780199464678
Hardback
264 pages
Chelva Kanaganayakam
Starting from the 1950s, a time when Sri Lankan society was in great upheaval and political unrest was rampant, new and experimental forms of writing emerged that voiced the collective agony, anxiety, and hardship of Tamil life at home and abroad. Bringing together poems, short stories, and a play, this anthology recounts the many struggles of the Tamils in Sri Lanka who had, over a period of time, seen death, destruction, and displacement. As important contributions to ‘exile literature’, these literary works are often directly or obliquely political and reveal a preoccupation with art, but without artifice. The works in this collection experiment with language which is deeply self-reflexive and creates a new consciousness. Emphasizing the necessity and the conditions that made this literature possible, this anthology aims to create a chronological repository of writings that offer a literary account of the turbulence that unfolded and eventually gave rise to the notion of Tamil identities in Sri Lanka.
Rights: World Rights
Chelva Kanaganayakam
Table of contents
Acknowledgements Introduction POETRY Mahakavi (1927–1971) Ahalikai The Chariot and the Moon Neelaavanan (1931–1975) Sleep T. Ramalingam (1933–2008) Caste and Lust The Future R. Murugaiyan (1935–2009) Variations Toil Shanmugam Sivalingam (1936–2012) At the Intersection To the Spring Blossom of Polar Land S. Sivasegaram (1942–) Ahalya Butterflies of My Dreams The Gecko M.A. Nuhman (1944–) Last Evening, This Morning V.I.S. Jayapalan (1944–) Land of the Singing Fish To a Childhood Sinhalese Friend A. Jesurasa (1946–) Vortex M. Pushparajan (1947–) Phoenix Uprooting Puthuvai Ratnathurai (1948–) December, a Thing of Beauty Yearning S. Vilvaratnam (1950–2006) The Sea The Moon’s Echo Ki. Pi. Aravinthan (1953–2015) Stare at the Sky Dreams and the Sea Thirumavalavan (1955–2015) River The Weaver-bird’s Nest Solaikkili (1957–) The Story of a Golden River R. Cheran (1960–) Yaman When I Die and Depart Healing the Forest Cheliyan (1960–) On a Rainy Day S. Karunagaran (1963–) Whose Home? Vinothini Satchithananthan (1969–) The Storyteller P. Ahilan (1970–) Lament of a Mother Transience Faheema Jahan (1973–) After the Destruction An Abandoned Soul Nadchathran Chev-Inthiyan (1974–) Until My Wineglass Is Empty Rashmy Ahmad Mohammad (1974–) Calamity Anar (1974–) Absence My Sister’s Laughter Was Like a Bird in Flight DRAMA Kuzhanthai M. Shanmugalingam (1931–) The Land of Our Parents FICTION Theliwatte Joseph (1934–) Deformity S. Kathirgamanathan (1942–1972) They Can Only Sigh C. Yoganathan (1942–2008) The Hungry Ones M.L.M. Mansoor (1950–) Laments of the Purdah Sritharan (1947–) Ramasamy Ranjakumar Somapala (1959–) Kosalai Uma Varatharajan (1956–) The Advent of the King Kunthavai (1941–) The Dispossessed A. Ravi (1960–) The Crow of Bremen Town Siddhartha ‘Che’ Guevara (1965–) Kamikaze Parthipan (1964–) The Island Kumar Moorthy (1956–2001) The Last Chapter Chandra Ravindran (1963–) Childhood Shoba Sakthi (1967–) Friday Appadurai Muttulingam (1937–) The American Girl About the Editor, Contributors, and Translators
Chelva Kanaganayakam
Table of contents
Acknowledgements Introduction POETRY Mahakavi (1927–1971) Ahalikai The Chariot and the Moon Neelaavanan (1931–1975) Sleep T. Ramalingam (1933–2008) Caste and Lust The Future R. Murugaiyan (1935–2009) Variations Toil Shanmugam Sivalingam (1936–2012) At the Intersection To the Spring Blossom of Polar Land S. Sivasegaram (1942–) Ahalya Butterflies of My Dreams The Gecko M.A. Nuhman (1944–) Last Evening, This Morning V.I.S. Jayapalan (1944–) Land of the Singing Fish To a Childhood Sinhalese Friend A. Jesurasa (1946–) Vortex M. Pushparajan (1947–) Phoenix Uprooting Puthuvai Ratnathurai (1948–) December, a Thing of Beauty Yearning S. Vilvaratnam (1950–2006) The Sea The Moon’s Echo Ki. Pi. Aravinthan (1953–2015) Stare at the Sky Dreams and the Sea Thirumavalavan (1955–2015) River The Weaver-bird’s Nest Solaikkili (1957–) The Story of a Golden River R. Cheran (1960–) Yaman When I Die and Depart Healing the Forest Cheliyan (1960–) On a Rainy Day S. Karunagaran (1963–) Whose Home? Vinothini Satchithananthan (1969–) The Storyteller P. Ahilan (1970–) Lament of a Mother Transience Faheema Jahan (1973–) After the Destruction An Abandoned Soul Nadchathran Chev-Inthiyan (1974–) Until My Wineglass Is Empty Rashmy Ahmad Mohammad (1974–) Calamity Anar (1974–) Absence My Sister’s Laughter Was Like a Bird in Flight DRAMA Kuzhanthai M. Shanmugalingam (1931–) The Land of Our Parents FICTION Theliwatte Joseph (1934–) Deformity S. Kathirgamanathan (1942–1972) They Can Only Sigh C. Yoganathan (1942–2008) The Hungry Ones M.L.M. Mansoor (1950–) Laments of the Purdah Sritharan (1947–) Ramasamy Ranjakumar Somapala (1959–) Kosalai Uma Varatharajan (1956–) The Advent of the King Kunthavai (1941–) The Dispossessed A. Ravi (1960–) The Crow of Bremen Town Siddhartha ‘Che’ Guevara (1965–) Kamikaze Parthipan (1964–) The Island Kumar Moorthy (1956–2001) The Last Chapter Chandra Ravindran (1963–) Childhood Shoba Sakthi (1967–) Friday Appadurai Muttulingam (1937–) The American Girl About the Editor, Contributors, and Translators
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