Abstract
The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities (SLJH) is a peer-reviewed, bi-annual, journal of the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. It is devoted to publishing articles based on original research in the Humanities and related fields. It aims to reach a readership of both specialists and non-specialists.The SLJH is currently accepting submissions for Volume 43, Nos. 1 and 2 (2021)Submissions could range from research articles (6000-7000 words, including footnotes/tables/graphs, etc.) to book-reviews, review articles, opinion pieces and interviews (not exceeding 3000 words). For detailed instructions on submissions, see https://sljh.sljol.info/about/submissions/;Deadlines - Volume 43, No. 1: 31 March, 2021 - Volume 43, No. 2: 31 August, 2021
Highlights
It hurts like an injury that has healed and yet has retained somehow a trace of the original pain...‖ (85, emphasis original). It is a pain which nationalism, as Guha with wry cynicism points out, appropriates to create ―a cult of mourning‖ (98). It is this culture of mourning that Mufti argues generates an ―aura of authenticity‖ within which the post-colonial present is seen as inauthentic – a kind of fallen state where the authentic past haunts the nationalist imagination
The main emphasis in Dharmapala is on making Sinhala society coeval with the world rather than on a romantic notion of village life and Buddhism plays a crucial role in this process
In this article and several others in which Bandaranaike refers to Buddhism and religion in general, the mytho-historical narrative so central to Dharmapala‘s imagination is largely absent while he presents Buddhism as a universal discourse rather than a particular cultural legacy of the Sinhalese
Summary
It is this culture of mourning that Mufti argues generates an ―aura of authenticity‖ within which the post-colonial present is seen as inauthentic – a kind of fallen state where the authentic past haunts the nationalist imagination. The main emphasis in Dharmapala is on making Sinhala society (or Sri Lanka in general) coeval with the world rather than on a romantic notion of village life and Buddhism plays a crucial role in this process.
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