An Australian poet’s India

Chris Mooney-Singh’s new collection of poetry The Bearded Chameleon is the work of a new voice engaging with the ‘diaspora discourse’. As a Caucasian Australian who has converted to Sikhism, his is a kind of reverse-diasporic point of view. Mooney-Singh’s close empathy with the land of his adopted way of life and philosophy creates in the reader the impression of a second-generation ‘returnee’ to a familiar time and place,

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Encounters:

Literature and varieties of history

[Part 4]

In today’s column I wish to discuss the Marxian approach to history and its implications for the study and analysis of literature. Of all the varieties of history currently in vogue, Marxian history has perhaps exerted the most significant and far-reaching influence on Sri Lankan literature and criticism. For example, in the case of Sinhala literature,

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Cultural Scene:

Issue of gender

[Part 2]

I concluded the last week’s column with the fact that the women’s literature from Asia, Africa, South America and African Americans in the USA seem to consider themselves at the intersection of three major discourses and structures; racism, imperialism and sexism. It is pertinent to look at further how women are discriminated in these specific areas.

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