Title
Betting on Fiction: Nation, Diaspora, Technology, and Anglophone Literary Networks in Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Legend of Pradeep Mathew
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Shehan Karunatilaka's Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew (2010) is among the most inventive recent South Asian novels in English. The novel, built around the story of an elusive cricketer whose story is shaped by the ethnic and class conflicts of late twentieth-century Sri Lanka, provides both a guidebook to the intricacies of Sri Lankan cricket and an extended commentary on the recent history of the Sri Lankan nation. Karunatilaka makes textual and paratextual use of the internet, not merely as a means of promoting his novel, but also as a means of expanding the scope of the novelistic form.
Comments
Brian Yothers (2012) Betting on Fiction: Nation, Diaspora, Technology, and Anglophone Literary Networks in Shehan Karunatilaka's The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, South Asian Review, 33:3, 139-154, DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2012.11932900