The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity by Harshana Rambukwella

Author:Harshana Rambukwella [Rambukwella, Harshana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literary Collections, Asian, General, Political Science, Political Ideologies, Nationalism & Patriotism, History, Asia, Essays
ISBN: 9781787351288
Google: PaZjDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2018-07-02T22:26:59+00:00

In Oxford itself, among his peers, neither Bandaranaike’s wealth nor his privileged background can provide him the acceptance he desires. His marginality is brought home when he finds himself a mere spectator standing outside the inner circle of the Junior Common Room. Observing the jubilant entrance of Edward Marjoribanks – a young aristocrat and a later friend and role model of Bandaranaike’s – into the Common Room, Bandaranaike comments, ‘How I envied him … How sadly I wondered … whether I would ever be greeted like that myself!’ (1963, 8). Such acceptance, as the narrative chronicles, does not come easily, especially given the insidious nature of the racial discrimination in polite Oxbridge society:

With positive rudeness or brutal frankness one might be able to deal more or less effectively … The trouble was far more subtle and deep seated: in a variety of ways one was always being shown, politely but unmistakeably, that one was simply not wanted.

(Bandaranaike 1963, 9)

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