John Updike, Through a continent darkly, in, Picked up Pieces, (New York 1975).Kasia Boddy, The European journey in post-war American fiction and film, in Elsner and Rubies (Eds), Voyages and.Walter Abish, Alphabetical Africa, (New York.James Duncan and David Gregory (Eds), Writes of Passage: Reading Travel Writing, (London and New York.by Maria Jolas), The Poetics of Space, (Boston 1994). For examples of representational theories of landscape within geography, see Stephen Daniels and Denis Cosgrove (Eds).The name ‘Triton’ of course has many associations with the maritime in western symbolism.In personal e-mail correspondence on, Romesh Gunesekera, stated that these were his two main themes in.Rushdie quoted on p.189 in Stefano Manferlotti, Writers From Elsewhere, in Chambers and Curti (Eds), The Post-colonial.The paper emphasizes how Romesh Gunesekera's hybrid position, as an author born in Sri Lanka and now writing from England, constitutes a post-colonial intervention which allows us to ask new questions about Sri Lanka's ‘natural’ insularity. This is an ambivalent contradiction that fuels a civil war in Sri Lanka which relentlessly and sanguinely contests the integrity of Sri Lankan island-ness. I suggest that Reef demonstrates how island-ness is an inescapable yet problematic dimension of contemporary Sri Lankan geography. ‘Island-ness’ emerges as a rationalization of modernity, one with its roots in Sri Lanka's colonial experience which the author then unpicks as he proceeds to explore the limits of modernity. Through the memory of the novel's main protagonist the author's exploration of modernity fixes geographical knowledge of Sri Lanka. I show how Reef maps an imaginative geography which both naturalizes and problematizes Sri Lankan ‘island-ness’. Through a close reading of the Anglo–Sri Lankan author Romesh Gunesekera's 1994 novel Reef, this paper interrogates the misplaced concrete-ness regarding Sri Lanka's status as archetypal ‘island-state’.
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