D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke

List of John Benjamins publications for which D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke plays a role.

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Goonetilleke, D.C.R.A. 2013 5. The interface of language, literature and politics in Sri Lanka: A paradigm for ex-colonies of Britain The Politics of English: South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific, Wee, Lionel, Robbie B.H. Goh and Lisa Lim (eds.), pp. 81–102 | Article
During colonial times, the English language occupied a dominant position, but the colonial educational system was not a mass or egalitarian system. The presence of the colonial masters had a suffocating effect on the creative energies of the local inhabitants and literature in English emerges… read more