Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon

摘要: Lanka, Ceylon, Sarandib: merely three disparate names for a single island? Perhaps. Yet the diverge in historical echoes, literary cultures, maps and memories they evoke. Names that have intersected overlapped - treatise, poem, document only to go their own ways. But despite different trajectories, all are tied narratives of banishment exile. Ronit Ricci suggests island served as concrete exilic site well metaphor imagining exile across religions, languages, space time: Sarandib, where Adam was banished from Paradise; Sita languished captivity; faraway Indonesian royalty under colonialism. Utilising Malay manuscripts documents Sri Javanese chronicles, Dutch British sources, explores histories imaginings displacement related through study Lankan Malays connections an past.