scholarly journals MALĒCIYĀVIṈ MU.AṈPUCCELVAṈ ILAṄKAIYIṈ TI.NYĀṈACĒKARAṈ ĀKIYŌRIṈ CIṞUKATAIKAḶ ŌR OPPĀYVU [COMPARISON OF THE SHORT STORIES OF M.ANBUCHELVAN (MALAYSIA) AND T.NYANASEKARAN (SRI LANKA)]

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-164
Author(s):  
KUNASEELAN SUBRAMANIAM
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Plantation Life

The objective of this study is to identify and compare the education issues of the plantation communities in selected Tamil short stories of Mu.Anbuchelvan (Malaysia) and T.Nyanasegaran (Sri Lanka) as well as to analyse the parallel elements in these issues. These short stories are selected based on the similarity of intrinsic elements that reflect plantation life and socioeconomic status. The analysis and discussions are based on comparative literary theory. The findings of this research shows that education issues are very similar among plantation communities in Malaysia and Sri Lanka. The implications of this study are important to understand the importance of Tamil short stories as historical sources of plantation communities in Malaysia and Sri Lanka.

Alien Internment in John Galsworthy’s ‘The Bright Side’ and ‘The Dog It was that Died’

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
Jill Felicity Durey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Internment Camp ◽  
Bright Side ◽  
Second World ◽  
John Galsworthy

This article illuminates two short stories by John Galsworthy through examining them with the help of his diaries and letters, a handful of unpublished letters by his nephew from an internment camp and secondary historical sources. It argues that the stories, when read in conjunction with these sources, are highly revealing about human nature during Second World War and also about Galsworthy’s prescient fears concerning a second twentieth-century world war, which he did not live to see.

scholarly journals Double burden of maternal and child malnutrition and socioeconomic status in urban Sri Lanka

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. e0224222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chisa Shinsugi ◽  
Deepa Gunasekara ◽  
N. K. Gunawardena ◽  
Wasanthi Subasinghe ◽  
Miki Miyoshi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Child Malnutrition ◽  
Double Burden

Relationships of desire for no more children and socioeconomic and demographic factors in Sri Lankan women

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. I. De Silva
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Unwanted Pregnancy ◽  
Son Preference ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Sex Composition ◽  
Prevalence Survey ◽  
Fertility Desires ◽  
Contraceptive Prevalence ◽  
Socioeconomic And Demographic Factors

SummaryData from the 1982 Sri Lanka Contraceptive Prevalence Survey are used to identify women who wish to stop childbearing; they differ in socioeconomic status from their counterparts who want more children. Educated women are more likely to be motivated to cease childbearing than non-educated women; Christian or Sinhalese/Buddhist women are more willing to stop childbearing than Moor/Muslim or Tamil/Hindu women. The relationships between sex composition of existing children and women's fertility desires indicate that although moderate son preference exists it does not affect their contraceptive behaviour. Among those who want no more children, 15% are at risk of unwanted pregnancy because they do not practise contraception. Again better education and being Christian or Sinhalese/Buddhist reduced the risk of unwanted pregnancy. Women whose husbands disapproved of contraception had over four times higher risk of unwanted pregnancy than women whose husbands approved.

scholarly journals Correction: Double burden of maternal and child malnutrition and socioeconomic status in urban Sri Lanka

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. e0230785
Author(s):  
Chisa Shinsugi ◽  
Deepa Gunasekara ◽  
N. K. Gunawardena ◽  
Wasanthi Subasinghe ◽  
Miki Miyoshi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Child Malnutrition ◽  
Double Burden

scholarly journals The English Language and Global Literary Influences on the Work of Shahnon Ahmad

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-37
Author(s):  
Harry Aveling ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
British Literature ◽  
World Literature ◽  
English Language ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Gabriel Garcia Marquez ◽  
Colonial Literature

Postcolonial literary theory asserts that the colonial literature provides the models and sets the standards which writers and readers in the colonies may either imitate or resist. The major Malay author Shahnon Ahmad received his secondary and tertiary education in English and taught English at the beginning of his career. Drawing on his collection of essays Weltanschauung: Suatu Perjalanan Kreatif (2008), the paper argues that Shahnon was influenced at significant points in his literary development by his reading of literature in English and English translation–nineteenth century European and American short stories, the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and William Faulkner – but not by English (British) literature itself. Through his creation of original new works, focused on Malay society and directed towards Malay audiences, Shahnon was not a postcolonial subject but a participant in, and contributor to, the wider flow of world literature. Keywords: postcolonial, Shanon Ahmad, English literature, literature in English, world literature.

scholarly journals The Metropolis and the “Bloodless Characters”: A Comparative Study of James Joyce’s “A Painful Case” and Yusuf Idrīs’s “Qāʿ al-Madīna” [“The Bottom of the City”]

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 233-241
Author(s):  
Ghada Abdel Hafeez
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Perception Of Self ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The current paper has been developed to examine the complexities of metropolitan subjects’ blasé attitude and bloodless life as portrayed in James Joyce’s “A Painful Case” and Yusuf Idrīs’s “Qāʿ al-Madīna” [“The Bottom of the City”] short stories. The paper aims at analyzing the impact of metropolis on its bloodless characters’ mental health and perception of self through the unpacking of the blasé attitude which emerges in Georg Simmel’s famous study “The Metropolis and Mental Life.” Using Simmel’s study as a tool to analyze the two short stories, the paper will comment on and compare the manner in which the Irish and the Egyptian urban texts decipher the code of their modern metropoles to interpret in what ways Simmel’s insights illuminate our understanding of the dilemma of the metropolitan subject.  In this paper the urban and literary theory will complement each other in shedding light on the emergence of new forms of socialization. The paper reaches the conclusion that the overall image of the metropolis portrayed in the two short stories was constructed through the mutilated sensibilities of the metropolitan subjects that have become dispirited by the routine of their daily lives. The two protagonists – Mr. Duffy and Mr. Abdallah - end up living like strangers who maintain minimal comunication with others due the cold and unfeeling rationality they adopt to protect themselves against the overstimulation of their dehumanizing metropoles.

Differentials in Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Diabetes by Socioeconomic Status and Sex in Kalutara, Sri Lanka

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 401-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lakshman Gamlath ◽  
Sumal Nandasena ◽  
Sudirikku Hennadige Padmal de Silva ◽  
Christine Linhart ◽  
Anh Ngo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Cardiovascular Risk ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cardiovascular Risk Factors

scholarly journals Edgar Allan Poe: A Source for Miriam Allen Deford

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-99
Author(s):  
Maria Alice Ribeiro Gabriel
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
The Family ◽  
Detective Stories ◽  
Point Of Departure

The influence of Edgar Allan Poe on North American culture and literature is still a subject of debate in contemporary literary theory. However, Poe’s creative legacy regarding the writings of Miriam Allen Deford remains neglected by the literary critics. Deford’s fiction explored a set of literary genres, such as biography, science fiction, crime and detective short stories. Taking these premises as a point of departure, this article aims to identify similarities between “A Death in the Family” and some of Poe’s works. Drawing on studies by J. T. Irwin, James M. Hutchisson and others, the objective of this paper is to analyze passages from Deford’s tale in comparison with the poetry and fictional prose of Poe. The analysis suggests that Deford’s horror short story “A Death in the Family,” published in 1961, was mostly inspired by Poe’s gothic tales, detective stories, and poems.

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