Maryse Jayasuriya
Biographic Data
| ID | 5965381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maryse Jayasuriya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maryse |
| FAMILY NAME | Jayasuriya |
| SIGNATURE | JAYASURIYA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-3297-2247 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Preventing Erasure and Seeking Accountability in Sri Lankan Diasporic Fiction
Sixteen years after the end of the military conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009, there has been no real accountability for the atrocities that took place during the 26‐year war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan state. Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens and V. V. Ganeshananthan's Brotherless Night examine the complexities of the conflict. Chandran shows the congruence between the anti‐democratic politi…
Mapping Global Sri Lankan Literature and Culture
Poetry of Witness as a Human Rights Intervention
Bricks, Mortar, Words
This essay examines literary attempts to memorialize public buildings and structures—the Jaffna Public Library, the Central Bank building, the Temple of the Tooth—that were destroyed during the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. Drawing examples from the poetry of Cheran, Anne Ranasinghe, Vivimarie Vander Poorten, and Jean Arasanayagam and the novels of V.V. Ganeshananthan and Romesh Gunesekera, the essay considers how when concrete structures are damag…
Womanly “Acts”
The puberty ceremony for young girls is an important rite of passage in Sri Lanka, as it is in many other cultures. The ceremony is commonly referred to as “attaining age.” Many Sri Lankan Anglophone writers have focused on this celebration of menarche and its emphasis on gender performance. Using anthropological studies of the cultural resonances of menstruation this essay considers the ways in which Punyakante Wijenaike, Chandani Lokugé, Vivima…
Terror and Reconciliation
Terror and Reconciliation explores the English language literature that has emerged from Sri Lanka’s quarter-century long ethnic conflict. It examines poetry, short fiction and novels by both diasporic writers and writers resident in Sri Lanka. Its discussion of resident Sri Lankan writers is particularly important because it calls attention to a rich and ambitious body of work that has largely been ignored in the Western academy and media until …
Guest Editors' Column
Writing is not a unilateral act”
In this interview with Maryse Jayasuriya, Vivimarie Vander Poorten discusses the lack of publishing infrastructure, particularly with regard to Anglophone writers in Sri Lanka, and the significance of the Gratiaen Prize in such a context. She also analyzes how her own hybridity reflects the colonial past of Sri Lanka. She mentions her ambivalence regarding writing creatively in English and the need for, as well as the difficulties of, translating…
Contestation, Marginality, and (Trans)nationalism
(2012). Contestation, Marginality, and (Trans)nationalism: Considering Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature. South Asian Review: Vol. 33, 'Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature', Guest Edited by Maryse Jayasuriya and Aparna Halpe, pp. 17-28
Violence spilt blood smashed glass”
(2008). “Violence spilt blood smashed glass”: Representations of Sri Lanka's Conflict in the Works of Jean Arasanayagam and Kamala Wijeratne. South Asian Review: Vol. 29, Perspectives on South Asian Women's Writing, pp. 83-102
Contestation, Marginality, and (Trans)nationalism
(2012). Contestation, Marginality, and (Trans)nationalism: Considering Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature. South Asian Review: Vol. 33, 'Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature', Guest Edited by Maryse Jayasuriya and Aparna Halpe, pp. 17-28
Bricks, Mortar, Words
This essay examines literary attempts to memorialize public buildings and structures—the Jaffna Public Library, the Central Bank building, the Temple of the Tooth—that were destroyed during the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. Drawing examples from the poetry of Cheran, Anne Ranasinghe, Vivimarie Vander Poorten, and Jean Arasanayagam and the novels of V.V. Ganeshananthan and Romesh Gunesekera, the essay considers how when concrete structures are damag…
Mapping Global Sri Lankan Literature and Culture
Violence spilt blood smashed glass”
(2008). “Violence spilt blood smashed glass”: Representations of Sri Lanka's Conflict in the Works of Jean Arasanayagam and Kamala Wijeratne. South Asian Review: Vol. 29, Perspectives on South Asian Women's Writing, pp. 83-102
Terror and Reconciliation
Terror and Reconciliation explores the English language literature that has emerged from Sri Lanka’s quarter-century long ethnic conflict. It examines poetry, short fiction and novels by both diasporic writers and writers resident in Sri Lanka. Its discussion of resident Sri Lankan writers is particularly important because it calls attention to a rich and ambitious body of work that has largely been ignored in the Western academy and media until …
Guest Editors' Column
Writing is not a unilateral act”
In this interview with Maryse Jayasuriya, Vivimarie Vander Poorten discusses the lack of publishing infrastructure, particularly with regard to Anglophone writers in Sri Lanka, and the significance of the Gratiaen Prize in such a context. She also analyzes how her own hybridity reflects the colonial past of Sri Lanka. She mentions her ambivalence regarding writing creatively in English and the need for, as well as the difficulties of, translating…
Contestation, Marginality, and (Trans)nationalism
(2012). Contestation, Marginality, and (Trans)nationalism: Considering Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature. South Asian Review: Vol. 33, 'Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature', Guest Edited by Maryse Jayasuriya and Aparna Halpe, pp. 17-28
Womanly “Acts”
The puberty ceremony for young girls is an important rite of passage in Sri Lanka, as it is in many other cultures. The ceremony is commonly referred to as “attaining age.” Many Sri Lankan Anglophone writers have focused on this celebration of menarche and its emphasis on gender performance. Using anthropological studies of the cultural resonances of menstruation this essay considers the ways in which Punyakante Wijenaike, Chandani Lokugé, Vivima…
Bricks, Mortar, Words
This essay examines literary attempts to memorialize public buildings and structures—the Jaffna Public Library, the Central Bank building, the Temple of the Tooth—that were destroyed during the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. Drawing examples from the poetry of Cheran, Anne Ranasinghe, Vivimarie Vander Poorten, and Jean Arasanayagam and the novels of V.V. Ganeshananthan and Romesh Gunesekera, the essay considers how when concrete structures are damag…
Mapping Global Sri Lankan Literature and Culture
Poetry of Witness as a Human Rights Intervention
Preventing Erasure and Seeking Accountability in Sri Lankan Diasporic Fiction
Sixteen years after the end of the military conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009, there has been no real accountability for the atrocities that took place during the 26‐year war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan state. Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens and V. V. Ganeshananthan's Brotherless Night examine the complexities of the conflict. Chandran shows the congruence between the anti‐democratic politi…
Sociology (7 works) · Sri lanka (7 works) · South asia (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works)