Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Edited by R. Cheran, Dalbir Singh, Chelva Kanaganayakam, and Sudharshan Durayappah. Tamil Studies. In the past few decades, as a growing presence worldwide, Tamil has become an important component of the South Asian diaspora. As one of the few cla[...]
This selection of poems by Cheran, one of the most important poets writing in Tamil today, charts the civil war in Sri Lanka of more than three decades, and its aftermath, in a narrative set against a landscape once idyllic, now devastated. Yet this is not the only narrative in this book: woven thro[...]