Chandani Lokuge
Biographic Data
| ID | 642249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chandani Lokuge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chandani |
| FAMILY NAME | Lokuge |
| SIGNATURE | LOKUGE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Lives of Ancestors
Arguing that the past informs our present and indeed our future as migrants, this essay focuses on the history of movement and interaction of the earliest Sri Lankans who emigrated to Australia in the late nineteenth century. Rather than follow a sequential narrative arc, I use a personal essay form that allows me to humanize the migrant by identifying imaginatively with the migrant's sense of self, and through that strategy, question assumptions…
Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the result of a collaboration with the South Asian Diaspora International Research Network (SADIRN) at Monash University, Australia, engages with Asian Australian writing, a phenomenon that has been staking out a place in the Australian literary landscape since the 1950s and 1960s. It has now burgeoned into an influential area of cultural production, known for its ethnic diversity and sty…
Mediating literary borders
The current Australian political and news-media agenda is very much about "outside" views, tending to treat migrants – including refugees and asylum seekers, for example – as one category of "others" devoid of race, culture or psychological specificities. A compelling aspect of literature's power is that it transforms such encompassing public issues into humanist stories whose affective and cognitive resonances transcend the limits of political p…
The Novelist and Censorship
In a political sense, my writing could be seen as interrogating mainstream templates, presenting an alternative philosophy that is neither totally Sri Lankan nor Australian. What limitations are imposed on my writing within this context? What external pressures (and freedoms) does each culture impose on my writing? How does my own cultural ethos affect my writing process? How do I resist, contest, disrupt and destabilize these impositions? This p…
Journey Into Vishranti
This essay is based on my experiences as a Sri Lankan diasporic in Australia, my creative writing and academic research. Using the range of mountains named the Three Sisters and the Buddhist Vihara in Katoomba, New South Wales as a creative microcosm, the essay weaves into a philosophical meditation on the diasporic's journey into true restfulness (vishranti). It is supported by theories of postcolonial hybridity and globalization
Mediating literary borders
The current Australian political and news-media agenda is very much about "outside" views, tending to treat migrants – including refugees and asylum seekers, for example – as one category of "others" devoid of race, culture or psychological specificities. A compelling aspect of literature's power is that it transforms such encompassing public issues into humanist stories whose affective and cognitive resonances transcend the limits of political p…
Journey Into Vishranti
This essay is based on my experiences as a Sri Lankan diasporic in Australia, my creative writing and academic research. Using the range of mountains named the Three Sisters and the Buddhist Vihara in Katoomba, New South Wales as a creative microcosm, the essay weaves into a philosophical meditation on the diasporic's journey into true restfulness (vishranti). It is supported by theories of postcolonial hybridity and globalization
The Novelist and Censorship
In a political sense, my writing could be seen as interrogating mainstream templates, presenting an alternative philosophy that is neither totally Sri Lankan nor Australian. What limitations are imposed on my writing within this context? What external pressures (and freedoms) does each culture impose on my writing? How does my own cultural ethos affect my writing process? How do I resist, contest, disrupt and destabilize these impositions? This p…
Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the result of a collaboration with the South Asian Diaspora International Research Network (SADIRN) at Monash University, Australia, engages with Asian Australian writing, a phenomenon that has been staking out a place in the Australian literary landscape since the 1950s and 1960s. It has now burgeoned into an influential area of cultural production, known for its ethnic diversity and sty…
Mediating literary borders
The current Australian political and news-media agenda is very much about "outside" views, tending to treat migrants – including refugees and asylum seekers, for example – as one category of "others" devoid of race, culture or psychological specificities. A compelling aspect of literature's power is that it transforms such encompassing public issues into humanist stories whose affective and cognitive resonances transcend the limits of political p…
The Lives of Ancestors
Arguing that the past informs our present and indeed our future as migrants, this essay focuses on the history of movement and interaction of the earliest Sri Lankans who emigrated to Australia in the late nineteenth century. Rather than follow a sequential narrative arc, I use a personal essay form that allows me to humanize the migrant by identifying imaginatively with the migrant's sense of self, and through that strategy, question assumptions…
Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works)