Making the difference: The differing presentations and representations of South Asia in the contemporary fiction of home and diasporic South Asian women writers

Article Abstract:

An argument on the writers who enjoy an advantage in terms of their profile and its impact on the representation of South Asia, especially beyond the Indian sub-continent is done. One important factor contributing to the accessibility of South Asian women's literature is generally more inclined to a hybridity of cultural norms, explaining South Asian culture even as it portrays it.

South Africa, Social aspects, Literacy, Women writers, Women authors

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Monastic patronage and temple building in contemporary Sri Lanka: caste, ritual performance, and merit

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The extent to which lay Buddhists of Sri Lanka in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are able to shape their own religious experiences as well as enjoy a choice of temple patronage is examined.

Sri Lanka, Evaluation, Religious aspects, Temples, Buddhist, Buddhist temples

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