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

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

Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium

18/06/2013 11:22AM

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

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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