http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/576 2026-04-30T03:06:28Z http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/susl/2606 ‘Intimate Enemies’ : An Analysis of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Punyakante Wijenaike’s The Waiting Earth Harischandra, Neshantha between Sellohamy and Isabella Hamy, the two female protagonists in Punyakante Wijenaike’s The Waiting Earth. The argument presents that cultural values are at the core of the problems between mother and daughter, among which are the preference for the male child, the stress on housework as opposed to education, and the sexual repression imposed on females. The essay will conclude with a deconstruction of the image of Sellohamy popularly seen by readers and critics as the “diriya mava” of patriarchy, and show her more to be Simone de Beauvoir’s “mater dolorosa". 2005-12-01T00:00:00Z http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/susl/2605 Warriors, Wives and Writers- Fantasy or Reality? : Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior Ransirini, Shamara This paper engages in a critical discussion of one of the most basic concems underlying contemporary literary feminism: what does it mean to “speak as" and “for" women? The paper reviews some of the conflicting theories of white and non-white literary feminista on the politics of representation, while analyzing Maxine Hong Kingston's memoir The Woman Warrior. It argues that Kingston’s memoir is a text with a feminist agenda, which could be located in the text’s strategies of narrativization. Finally the paper demonstrates how The Woman Warrior calis for a redefinition of the genre of minority literatura, while urging for a rethinking of western literary practicos. 2005-12-01T00:00:00Z http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/susl/2604 Don Juan - Method and Moratit^ Wijesinha, Rajiva 2005-12-01T00:00:00Z http://repo.lib.sab.ac.lk:8080/xmlui/handle/susl/2603 Pronunciation difficulties encountered by Sinhala native speakers in learning German as a foreign language Premawardhena, Neelakshi Chandrasena German is one of the languages much in demand among the foreign languages taught in Sri Lanka. One of the major areas of difficulty in learning German as a foreign language for the Sinhala native speakers is the phonology of German.The fallacy is that English is required to master the language, especiaily its phonology discourages many a monolingual Sinhala native speaker from learning German. This paper attempts to analyse phonological systems of Sinhala and German and identify the areas of difficulty for the Sinhala native speaker. The vowel and consonant phonemes, supra-segmental features and the syllabic structure of the two languages will be analysed to discuss the contrastive aspects of the two phonological systems. The difficulties faced by the monolingual and bilingual Sinhala native speakers in g¡asping the phonology of German are different.Henee this paper concentrates on both groups of speakers. It is also observed that contrary to popular belief, bilingual speakers with a good command of the English language also face difficulties in grasping the phonology of German.Further, it is expected that this paper enlightens the present and future students of German as to how minimal the contrastive aspects of the two phonological systems are. 2005-12-01T00:00:00Z