Foreigners at Home: Female Characters in Chandani Lokugé’s Turtle Nest and Punyakante Wijenaike’s Giraya
Psychological and personal dramas are a common feature of Sri Lankan fiction. A recurrent theme is the issue of belonging, when heroines in particular feel outsiders at home. The novels Giraya by Punyakante Wijenaike and Turtle Nest by Chandani Lokugé, two female writers with different life stories...
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | Psychological and personal dramas are a common feature of Sri Lankan fiction. A recurrent theme is the issue of belonging, when heroines in particular feel outsiders at home. The novels Giraya by Punyakante Wijenaike and Turtle Nest by Chandani Lokugé, two female writers with different life stories and backgrounds, exemplify this aspect of Sri Lankan literature. The aim of this article is to compare the two novels in the perspective of the heroines and their relationships with their surrounding environment, geographical as well as human: Kamini who suffers from being a stranger in her new home, and Aruni who fights against the feeling of being a foreigner in her own native land. |
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