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Reading of "Funny Boy" & "Cinnamon Gardens"
No full textShyam Selvadurai, the Canada Council Writer-in-Residence for 2012 was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He came to Canada with his family at the age of nineteen, and has a BFA from York University in Toronto. Funny Boy, his first novel, was published to immediate acclaim in 1994, was a national bestseller, and won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. Cinnamon Gardens, his second novel, was shortlisted for the prestigious Trillium Award and has been published in the US, UK, India, and Europe. Selvadurai is also the author of an acclaimed novel for young adults, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award. Shyam will be reading from two of his novels and discussing his work as a diasporic writer.Graduate and Postdoctoral StudiesOther UBCUnreviewedOthe
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
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Postcolonial children representing the nation in Arundhati Roy, Bapsi Sidhwa and Shyaaa Selvadurai
No full textThe Queer āOutsiderā: Family and Sexuality in Shyam Selvadurai's Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
No full textLimp wrists, inflammatory punches: violence, masculinity, and queer sexuality in Shyam Selvaduraiās Funny Boy
No full textThe Damned Mother and the Unnamed Other: Uncovering the Unconscious in Midnight's Children
No full textMeans of Escape, Means of Invention: Hindu Figures and Black Pop Culture in Rakesh Satyal's Blue Boy
No full textSome responses to colonial/neoācolonial education in in the castle of my skin, Petals of Blood, and funny boy
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