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Sri Lankan Traditions and the Imperial Imagination: Leonard Woolf's 'The Village in the Jungle'

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Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium
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Novelist and academic, Chandani Lokuge, gives her keynote at the symposium. She brings Sri Lankan linguistic and cultural traditions to Woolf's The Village in the Jungle.
She demonstrates the way in which the novel is heavily inflected with these traditions and employs them in interesting and significant ways.

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Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium
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Chandani Lokuge
Keywords
oxford
novel
woolf
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 18/06/2013
Duration: 00:10:55

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