This section includes books published by the Sabaragamuwa University Press, with assistance from the English Association of Sri Lanka and the Canadian International Development Agency, to support its English degree programme. Initially stress was on Sri Lankan literature, since there was less critical material available in that area, while a collection on what used to be termed Commonwealth writing also seemed useful, to bring together colonial and post-colonial writing from a Sri Lankan perspective.

The section will also include a guide to an earlier Ordinary Level literature syllabus that was intended to develop individual responses through guiding questions. Regrettably some teachers objected that the book raised questions without providing answers, not realizing that the study of literature is meant to be a liberating rather than a restricting experience. This Guide may then still prove useful in encouraging teachers and students with imagination to exercise this productively – especially since texts tend to be repeated, and some of those discussed here are still prescribed.

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