Ronit Ricci

Banishment and Belonging

Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon

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Produktbeschreibung

A ground-breaking exploration of exile and diaspora as they relate to place, language, religious tradition, literature and the imagination.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781108727242
• ISBN-10: 1108727247
• Artikelnr.: 56394356

Autorenporträt

Ronit Ricci is Sternberg-Tamir Chair in Comparative Cultures at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Australian National University. She is the author of the multiple-prize-winning Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arab Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Diasporic crossing: Malay writing in nineteenth-century Ceylon
3. Remembering Java
4. 'Ceyloned': the view from the other shore
5. Exilic journeys in time, place and writing
6. Nabi Adam: the paradigmatic exile
7. Banishment and inter-religious encounters: a Malay Ramayana
8. Ceylon Malays: military and literary paths
9. Malay writing in Ceylon: roots and routes
Glossary.