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Author: Edward Carpenter Publisher: Asian Educational Services ISBN: 9788120612334 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 394
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A charming book that describes and recounts the trip made by the author to Sri Lanka and India in 1890. The book is a description of scenes of nature and of ordinary human life and their unexpected vividness. The author was introduced into the circles of traditional teaching, which were usually closed to Europeans, and got to see the religious rit
Author: Edward Carpenter Publisher: Asian Educational Services ISBN: 9788120612334 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 394
Book Description
A charming book that describes and recounts the trip made by the author to Sri Lanka and India in 1890. The book is a description of scenes of nature and of ordinary human life and their unexpected vividness. The author was introduced into the circles of traditional teaching, which were usually closed to Europeans, and got to see the religious rit
Author: Melanie A. Murray Publisher: Rodopi ISBN: 9042026960 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 251
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A colonial discourse has perpetuated the literary notion of islands as paradisal. This study explores how the notions of island paradise have been represented in European literature, the oral and literary indigenous traditions of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka, a colonial literary influence in these islands, and the literary experience after independence in these nations. Persistent themes of colonial narratives foreground the aesthetic and ignore the workforce in a representation of island space as idealized, insular, and vulnerable to conquest; an ideal space for management and control. English landscape has been replicated in islands through literature and in reality - the 'Great House' being an ideological symbol of power. Island Paradise: The Myth investigates how these entrenched notions of paradise, which islands have traditionally represented metonymically, are contested in the works of four postcolonial authors: Jamaica Kincaid, Lawrence Scott, Romesh Gunesekera, and Jean Arasanayagam, from the island nations of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka. It analyzes texts which focus on gardens, island space, and houses to examine how these motifs are used to re-vision colonial/contested sites. This book examines the relationship between landscape and identity and, with reference to Homi K. Bhabha, considers how these writers offer an alternative space for negotiating the ambivalence of hybridity.
Author: John S. Strong Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022680187X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 366
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John S. Strong unravels the storm of influences shaping the received narratives of two iconic sacred objects. Bodily relics such as hairs, teeth, fingernails, pieces of bone—supposedly from the Buddha himself—have long served as objects of veneration for many Buddhists. Unsurprisingly, when Western colonial powers subjugated populations in South Asia, they used, manipulated, redefined, and even destroyed these objects to exert control. In The Buddha’s Tooth, John S. Strong examines Western stories, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, surrounding two significant Sri Lankan sacred objects to illuminate and concretize colonial attitudes toward Asian religions. First, he analyzes a tale about the Portuguese capture and public destruction, in the mid-sixteenth century, of a tooth later identified as a relic of the Buddha. Second, he switches gears to look at the nineteenth-century saga of British dealings with another tooth relic of the Buddha—the famous Daḷadā enshrined in a temple in Kandy—from 1815, when it was taken over by English forces, to 1954, when it was visited by Queen Elizabeth II. As Strong reveals, the stories of both the Portuguese tooth and the Kandyan tooth reflect nascent and developing Western understandings of Buddhism, realizations of the cosmopolitan nature of the tooth, and tensions between secular and religious interests.
Author: Grace C. Keroher Publisher: ISBN: Category : Geology Languages : en Pages : 900
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A compilation of the new geologic names introduced into the literature from 1961-1967 in the United States, its possessions, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Panama Canal Zone.
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