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Trauma and Memory in Post-Colonial Sri Lankan Literature: Examining the Immigrant Narrative in Nayomi Munaweera's Island of a Thousand Mirrors Through the Lens of Agamben’s ‘Homo Sacer’

 

Rashmika Lekamge

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