Eating One’s Way Through History: Food and Politics in Manuka Wijesinghe’s Monsoons and Potholes

This paper consists of an analysis of Monsoons and Potholes (2006), the first novel by Sri Lankan playwright Manuka Wijesinghe. Attention is paid to the ways in which the text articulates relations between personal stories, food, history and politics. Food plays a central role in some novels publish...

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Main Author: Isabel Alonso Breto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat de Barcelona 2011-03-01
Series:Coolabah
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Online Access:http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15681/18796