“A Different Way of Seeing”: An Interview with Minoli Salgado

Authors

  • Liam O'Loughlin University of Pittsburgh

Keywords:

Tsunami, disappearance, disaster, Sri Lankan literature, Minoli Salgado

Abstract

Sri Lanka has been circumscribed by media discourses that focus on the civil war and the 2004 tsunami. This interview with Minoli Salgado, author of numerous poems, short stories, the scholarly monograph Writing Sri Lanka (2007), and the novel A Little Dust on the Eyes (2014), addresses her search for a style to write these events against external simplifying narratives. Salgado describes representational challenges and her process of finding a language and form. 

Author Biography

Liam O'Loughlin, University of Pittsburgh

Liam O'Loughlin is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University where he teaches postcolonial literature and theory. His current research project examines the politics of disaster aesthetics in the contemporary South Asian English novel. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in Comparative American Studies, Negative Cosmopolitanism, The Literary Encyclopedia, and Interventions.

Published

2016-10-13

Issue

Vol. 47 No. 4 (2016): October 2016

Section

Interviews

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