Pavithra Tantrigoda
Biographic Data
| ID | 642413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pavithra Tantrigoda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pavithra |
| FAMILY NAME | Tantrigoda |
| SIGNATURE | TANTRIGODA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Central Florida |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-5206-2819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Disaster Writing in Minoli Salgado’s A Little Dust on the Eyes
This article focuses on Sri Lankan writer, Minoli Salgado's A Little Dust on the Eyes (2014) as a novel that interrogates the media narratives of natural disasters in postcolonial contexts. Countering the colonialist ideological production of space in the media depictions of natural disasters, I explore how Salgado's novel historicizes the tsunami and explores its imbrication within a compound landscape of political, economic, and natural disaste…
‘Dangerous Geographies’
This essay meets the spatial turn in postcolonial studies in examining the representations of the contested space of the nation during and after the war in Sri Lanka in the work of Ambalavaner Sivanandan and Romesh Gunesekera. In their realist novels that portray the ethnic conflict and its ramifications, these writers approach the topography of Sri Lanka as the overlapping material and discursive sites of meaning shaped by the overdetermined for…
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‘Dangerous Geographies’
This essay meets the spatial turn in postcolonial studies in examining the representations of the contested space of the nation during and after the war in Sri Lanka in the work of Ambalavaner Sivanandan and Romesh Gunesekera. In their realist novels that portray the ethnic conflict and its ramifications, these writers approach the topography of Sri Lanka as the overlapping material and discursive sites of meaning shaped by the overdetermined for…
Disaster Writing in Minoli Salgado’s A Little Dust on the Eyes
This article focuses on Sri Lankan writer, Minoli Salgado's A Little Dust on the Eyes (2014) as a novel that interrogates the media narratives of natural disasters in postcolonial contexts. Countering the colonialist ideological production of space in the media depictions of natural disasters, I explore how Salgado's novel historicizes the tsunami and explores its imbrication within a compound landscape of political, economic, and natural disaste…
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