Liyanage Amarakeerthi (University of Wisconsin)

Liyanage Amarakeerthi
PhD Student
University of Wisconsin - Madison

mailing address:
2301 Badger Pkwy #4
Madison, WI  53713  USA

phone: 608-250-1829
email: amarakeerthi@students.wisc.edu

Description of work:

Briefly, I going to write my dissertation on narrative technics of stories 
in prose in medieval Sinhala literature. I am interested in theorizing 
about the concept of prose that underlies the classical Sinhala prose.  In 
this study, I will take a narrative theoretical approach to analyze the 
classics.  Even though, Sinhala literary culture had some 6-8 centuries 
long prose  tradition, it was marginalized in the colonial time, when 
Western fiction came into the Sinhala literary scene. Therefore, my study 
will have something to add to the postcolonial literary theories too. So, 
my interests are mainly narrative theory, literary theory ,postclonial 
literary theory and South Asian literary cultures. In Madison, I work with 
my adviser Prof. Charles Hallisey.

[ Sri Lanka ]
[ Sinhala / Sinhalese ]