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“We Live in a State of Terror”: Transcending Territorial Violence in Romesh Gunesekera’s Heaven’s Edge

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: In Heaven’s Edge (2002), British writer Romesh Gunesekera, who was born in Sri Lanka, accounts for the sharp contrast between the images that the island conjures up of a par-adise destination for tourists and the extremely violent past of its people. Terror and beauty collide to portray a dystopian reality. This paper will examine how Gunesekera voices conflicts and how reverie serves as a coping mechanism to come to terms with inevitable violence.

Source: Commonwealth Essays and Studies

DOI: 10.4000/ces.4748

Author: Sabine Lauret-Taft

Institutions: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, University of Madras, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté

Language: English

Topic: Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W3176795479

FWCI: 4.424

Cites: 11

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10