Banishment and Belonging
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Banishment and Belonging

Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Banishment and Belonging

Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon

About this book

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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Information

Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781108480277
eBook ISBN
9781108572118
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Maps
  9. A Note on Orthography and Manuscripts
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. List of Abbreviations
  12. Maps
  13. 1 Introduction
  14. 2 Diasporic Crossings: Malay Writing in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon
  15. 3 Remembering Java
  16. 4 ''Ceyloned'': The View from the Other Shore
  17. 5 Exilic Journeys in Time, Place and Writing
  18. 6 Nabi Adam: The Paradigmatic Exile
  19. 7 Banishment and Interreligious Encounters: A Malay Ramayana
  20. 8 Ceylon Malays: Military and Literary Paths
  21. 9 Malay Writing in Ceylon: Roots and Routes
  22. Glossary
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index

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