Enabling Traditions

Author – Wimal Dissanayake

Publisher – Visidunu Prakashakayo

First Edition 2005

ISBN 955-9170-77-5

159 Pages

Enabling Traditions: Four Sinhala Cultural Intellectuals is an exercise in cultural criticism. Prof. Wimal Dissanayake has selected four of the leading cultural intellectuals in the country, namely, Munidasa Cumaratunga, Martin Wickramasinghe, Ediriweera Srachchandra and Gunadasa Amarasekara, and has explained their innovative work in terms of the interplay between tradition and modernity. He does so against the background of contemporary thinking on culture, history, language and agency. At a time when the world of Sinhala arts and letters is ignored or misrepresented in the outside world, this book will go a long way in redressing the imbalance.

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