'The Village in the Jungle' as colonial memoir: Woolf writing home
Victoria Glendinning, biographer of Leonard Woolf, offers her insights from extensive archival research into the life of Woolf in Ceylon and Britain. She explores Woolf's relationship to the metropolitan centre through his movement out to the colonial periphery and back again, ex ...Show more
'The Village in the Jungle' Roundtable Discussion
This Roundtable Discussion offers several ways into the life and work of Leonard Woolf from the perspectives of several academics. Hermione Lee and Anna Snaith build on the intersections of Leonard's work with Virginia Woolf's novels, while Elleke Boehmer and Nisha Manocha trace ...Show more
Sri Lankan Traditions and the Imperial Imagination: Leonard Woolf's 'The Village in the Jungle'
Novelist and academic, Chandani Lokuge, gives her keynote at the symposium. She brings Sri Lankan linguistic and cultural traditions to Woolf's The Village in the Jungle. She demonstrates the way in which the novel is heavily inflected with these traditions and employs them in in ...Show more