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'Only Sow Words': Cheran's A Second Sunrise as Postcolonial Autobiography

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[eng] The article discusses the poetry anthology A Second Sunrise (2012) by exiled
Tamil poet Cheran as a form of postcolonial autobiography. The anthology
arguably constitutes a narrative of the poet’s own life, reading also as a form
of communal autobiography representative of the (diasporic) Lankan Tamil
community. Cheran’s life and oeuvre are styled around a consistent bond with
the place of origin and, although physically estranged since he went on exile,
Cheran has never ceased treading it imaginatively in terms of both poetic
endeavour and political activism. The sense of community and the connection
to the land thus inform A Second Sunrise and conceptually and thematically link
the whole collection of poems. Using a set of propositions from the broad area
of life writing theory, this reading intends to demonstrate that the anthology,
while emphasizing a necessary sense continuity for the exilic self, throws light
on the multiple possibilities of identity reconfigurations in traumatic contexts.

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Articles publicats en revistes (Llengües i Literatures Modernes i Estudis Anglesos)

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'Only Sow Words': Cheran's A Second Sunrise as Postcolonial Autobiography