On Shadow Histories and the Myth of Personal Destiny
Reflections on Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors
For this weekend’s BookTube, I reflected on Vajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright Doors (2023) in light of a reading context that often unduly treats as “fantastical” that which is mainly drawing on traditions of reality from another part of the world. I also highlighted Gautam Bhatia’s excellent essay, “Sri Lankan speculative fiction takes off”, wi…
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