Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon

by Ronit Ricci

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108727247
• ISBN13: 9781108727242
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"