Neluka Silva
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neluka Silva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neluka |
| FAMILY NAME | Silva |
| SIGNATURE | SILVA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
No Place Called Home?”: Representations of Home in Chandani Lokugé's If the Moon Smiled and Roshi Fernando's Homesick
“Home is where the heart is”—even as we cling to this sentiment and are preoccupied with trying to unravel all the internalized dynamics, nuances, complexities of “home,” the terms “home” and “homeland” represent contested notions of belonging and exclusion. A desire to be at home, to belong to home and the longing for the mystic sense of home underscores much of diasporic writing. This essay interrogates and complicates the narrative of “being a…
Casting ethnicity: Representation of ethnic identities in contemporary Sri Lankan teledrama
Shameless Women
Research Article| March 01 2003 Shameless Women: Repression and Resistance in We Sinful Women: Contemporary Urdu Feminist Poetry Neluka Silva Neluka Silva neluka silva is the Head of the Department of English at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and has worked on issues of nationalism and gender in South Asian literature and culture. She edited The Hybrid Island: Culture Crossings and the Invention of Identity in Sri Lanka (Zed, 2002) and is t…
The Anxieties of Hybridity: Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family
Women, culture and nation-building: Contemporary Sinhalese and Bengali theatre
This article explores how women are located in the project of nation-building in a form of cultural production; the theatre. The two socio-political contexts under scrutiny are Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Culture, often posited as transcendental and pristine, plays a vital role in ideologically entrenching nationalist politics within the collective consciousness. During nationalist struggles, a large body of literature is produced which, as Benedic…
Mothers, daughters and "whores" of the nation: Nationalism and female stereotypes in post-colonial Sri Lankan drama in English
This article explores the correlation between nationalist discourse and gender stereotypes through the genre of drama in a post‐colonial context. Nationalist discourse articulated through populist material often invokes ideologies which equate perceptions of the motherland with stereotyped images of women. The pervasive myth of ‘machismo’ is also inscribed as a mobilising strategy in the propagandist machinery. The male is cast as the martyr/prot…
Shameless Women
Research Article| March 01 2003 Shameless Women: Repression and Resistance in We Sinful Women: Contemporary Urdu Feminist Poetry Neluka Silva Neluka Silva neluka silva is the Head of the Department of English at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and has worked on issues of nationalism and gender in South Asian literature and culture. She edited The Hybrid Island: Culture Crossings and the Invention of Identity in Sri Lanka (Zed, 2002) and is t…
The Anxieties of Hybridity: Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family
Casting ethnicity: Representation of ethnic identities in contemporary Sri Lankan teledrama
Mothers, daughters and "whores" of the nation: Nationalism and female stereotypes in post-colonial Sri Lankan drama in English
This article explores the correlation between nationalist discourse and gender stereotypes through the genre of drama in a post‐colonial context. Nationalist discourse articulated through populist material often invokes ideologies which equate perceptions of the motherland with stereotyped images of women. The pervasive myth of ‘machismo’ is also inscribed as a mobilising strategy in the propagandist machinery. The male is cast as the martyr/prot…
Mothers, daughters and "whores" of the nation: Nationalism and female stereotypes in post-colonial Sri Lankan drama in English
This article explores the correlation between nationalist discourse and gender stereotypes through the genre of drama in a post‐colonial context. Nationalist discourse articulated through populist material often invokes ideologies which equate perceptions of the motherland with stereotyped images of women. The pervasive myth of ‘machismo’ is also inscribed as a mobilising strategy in the propagandist machinery. The male is cast as the martyr/prot…
Women, culture and nation-building: Contemporary Sinhalese and Bengali theatre
This article explores how women are located in the project of nation-building in a form of cultural production; the theatre. The two socio-political contexts under scrutiny are Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Culture, often posited as transcendental and pristine, plays a vital role in ideologically entrenching nationalist politics within the collective consciousness. During nationalist struggles, a large body of literature is produced which, as Benedic…
The Anxieties of Hybridity: Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family
Casting ethnicity: Representation of ethnic identities in contemporary Sri Lankan teledrama
Shameless Women
Research Article| March 01 2003 Shameless Women: Repression and Resistance in We Sinful Women: Contemporary Urdu Feminist Poetry Neluka Silva Neluka Silva neluka silva is the Head of the Department of English at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and has worked on issues of nationalism and gender in South Asian literature and culture. She edited The Hybrid Island: Culture Crossings and the Invention of Identity in Sri Lanka (Zed, 2002) and is t…
No Place Called Home?”: Representations of Home in Chandani Lokugé's If the Moon Smiled and Roshi Fernando's Homesick
“Home is where the heart is”—even as we cling to this sentiment and are preoccupied with trying to unravel all the internalized dynamics, nuances, complexities of “home,” the terms “home” and “homeland” represent contested notions of belonging and exclusion. A desire to be at home, to belong to home and the longing for the mystic sense of home underscores much of diasporic writing. This essay interrogates and complicates the narrative of “being a…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Politics (3 works)