Ruvani Ranasinha
Biographic Data
| ID | 642426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruvani Ranasinha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruvani |
| FAMILY NAME | Ranasinha |
| SIGNATURE | RANASINHA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2751-1399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Salman Rushdie in Context
Moore-Gilbert on Kureishi
This essay revisits Bart Moore-Gilbert’s monograph Hanif Kureishi first published in 2001. It focuses on how Moore-Gilbert’s previous engagement with discourses of imperialism, alongside his immersion in complex, precise, contemporary cultural histories productively informed his study of Kureishi’s work. It concludes with an exploration of how his work on Kureishi anticipates Moore-Gilbert’s subsequent influential theorizing of postcolonial life-…
Delhi: New writings on the megacity
The world was changing; an imperceptible hysteria was pulsing through the city. For as long as I can remember Delhi looked like a giant construction site [ ... ] but the rubble has masked the incredi
The shifting reception of The Village in the Jungle (1913) in Sri Lanka
This article seeks to explore the reception of Leonard Woolf’s novel The Village in the Jungle (1913) in Sri Lanka. It examines the contrasting responses between those Sri Lankan critics who read the novel as anti-imperialist, and a younger generation who argue that the text manifests a wholly imperialist attitude and ideology and that its troping of colonial Ceylon and its inhabitants as savage, primitive, and Other replicates the discursive pro…
Writing and reading Sri Lanka: Shifting politics of cultural translation, consumption, and the implied reader
This article seeks to explore the politics of diasporic Sri Lankan fiction in relation to global markets and readerships. It argues for a revision of a long-standing notion of the informed reader in the Euro-American tradition in line with the rise of postcolonial literature. It explores the politics of linguistic and cultural “untranslatability” primarily in relation to Romesh Gunesekera’s fiction, and demonstrates how such diasporic novels prob…
South Asian broadcasters in Britain and the BBC: Talking to India (1941–1943)
This paper explores the contributions of key diasporic South Asian writers and intellectuals, such as Mulk Raj Anand, to the BBC’s broadcasts to India during the Second World War (1941–1943) when the tensions between nationalism, anti‐fascism and anti‐imperialism were intense. It explores how diasporic South Asian writers in Britain dealt with these tensions. It analyses how their different responses to these tensions found literary expression, a…
Racialized masculinities and postcolonial critique in contemporary British Asian male-authored texts
This article begins with a discussion of Hanif Kureishi's intervention in redefining configurations of racialized masculinity in relation to queer desire and class in his path‐breaking screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette (1986 Kureishi, Hanif. 1986. My Beautiful Laundrette, London: Faber. [Google Scholar]), via the inter‐racial gay romance between Omar, an ambitious mixed‐race British Asian and his white, working‐class former schoolmate Johnny. My…
Writing and reading Sri Lanka: Shifting politics of cultural translation, consumption, and the implied reader
This article seeks to explore the politics of diasporic Sri Lankan fiction in relation to global markets and readerships. It argues for a revision of a long-standing notion of the informed reader in the Euro-American tradition in line with the rise of postcolonial literature. It explores the politics of linguistic and cultural “untranslatability” primarily in relation to Romesh Gunesekera’s fiction, and demonstrates how such diasporic novels prob…
Racialized masculinities and postcolonial critique in contemporary British Asian male-authored texts
This article begins with a discussion of Hanif Kureishi's intervention in redefining configurations of racialized masculinity in relation to queer desire and class in his path‐breaking screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette (1986 Kureishi, Hanif. 1986. My Beautiful Laundrette, London: Faber. [Google Scholar]), via the inter‐racial gay romance between Omar, an ambitious mixed‐race British Asian and his white, working‐class former schoolmate Johnny. My…
Delhi: New writings on the megacity
The world was changing; an imperceptible hysteria was pulsing through the city. For as long as I can remember Delhi looked like a giant construction site [ ... ] but the rubble has masked the incredi
The shifting reception of The Village in the Jungle (1913) in Sri Lanka
This article seeks to explore the reception of Leonard Woolf’s novel The Village in the Jungle (1913) in Sri Lanka. It examines the contrasting responses between those Sri Lankan critics who read the novel as anti-imperialist, and a younger generation who argue that the text manifests a wholly imperialist attitude and ideology and that its troping of colonial Ceylon and its inhabitants as savage, primitive, and Other replicates the discursive pro…
Racialized masculinities and postcolonial critique in contemporary British Asian male-authored texts
This article begins with a discussion of Hanif Kureishi's intervention in redefining configurations of racialized masculinity in relation to queer desire and class in his path‐breaking screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette (1986 Kureishi, Hanif. 1986. My Beautiful Laundrette, London: Faber. [Google Scholar]), via the inter‐racial gay romance between Omar, an ambitious mixed‐race British Asian and his white, working‐class former schoolmate Johnny. My…
South Asian broadcasters in Britain and the BBC: Talking to India (1941–1943)
This paper explores the contributions of key diasporic South Asian writers and intellectuals, such as Mulk Raj Anand, to the BBC’s broadcasts to India during the Second World War (1941–1943) when the tensions between nationalism, anti‐fascism and anti‐imperialism were intense. It explores how diasporic South Asian writers in Britain dealt with these tensions. It analyses how their different responses to these tensions found literary expression, a…
Writing and reading Sri Lanka: Shifting politics of cultural translation, consumption, and the implied reader
This article seeks to explore the politics of diasporic Sri Lankan fiction in relation to global markets and readerships. It argues for a revision of a long-standing notion of the informed reader in the Euro-American tradition in line with the rise of postcolonial literature. It explores the politics of linguistic and cultural “untranslatability” primarily in relation to Romesh Gunesekera’s fiction, and demonstrates how such diasporic novels prob…
The shifting reception of The Village in the Jungle (1913) in Sri Lanka
This article seeks to explore the reception of Leonard Woolf’s novel The Village in the Jungle (1913) in Sri Lanka. It examines the contrasting responses between those Sri Lankan critics who read the novel as anti-imperialist, and a younger generation who argue that the text manifests a wholly imperialist attitude and ideology and that its troping of colonial Ceylon and its inhabitants as savage, primitive, and Other replicates the discursive pro…
Moore-Gilbert on Kureishi
This essay revisits Bart Moore-Gilbert’s monograph Hanif Kureishi first published in 2001. It focuses on how Moore-Gilbert’s previous engagement with discourses of imperialism, alongside his immersion in complex, precise, contemporary cultural histories productively informed his study of Kureishi’s work. It concludes with an exploration of how his work on Kureishi anticipates Moore-Gilbert’s subsequent influential theorizing of postcolonial life-…
Delhi: New writings on the megacity
The world was changing; an imperceptible hysteria was pulsing through the city. For as long as I can remember Delhi looked like a giant construction site [ ... ] but the rubble has masked the incredi
Salman Rushdie in Context
Sociology (6 works) · South asia (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works)