Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, resistance and the politics of place

Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance and the Politics of Place

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-217

  Salgado, Minoli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203015360     Document Type: Book

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