නවකතාවේ නව සංකල්ප කේන්ද්‍රය සහ පරිවාරය

Abstract

Colonization had a huge impact on Sri Lankan society. Because of that new social organizations, more political corporations, new institutions, new literature, new culture and gestures were established in the Sri Lankan social context. Among these the main reason for the change in Sinhala literature was western literature. The novel is a genre of modern literature. The Novel came into Sinhala literature through modern literature that came with the colonization. The Sinhala novel, which started as a simple fiction story and acquired the form and quality of a novel in the first decade of the twenty-first century, has now become a powerful literal category. During the colonial period, orientalism mainly influenced the novel. According to colonialism, European society is defined as the center and other societies outside Europe as the margin. This social climate is questioned by Orientalism. It is one of the forms found in novels written in the early period. But the western novel began to develop rapidly based on new literary concepts. When the post-colonial era came, new concepts of literature influenced Sinhala literature. Out of all, it influenced the Sinhala novel most. The new concepts called center and margin started to appear during this era. Realist novels reveal that the capitalist classes are at the center and proletariat is the margin of the Sri Lankan social context. Sunethra Rajakarunanayake’s Sandun Gira Gini Ganiyi (1989) is a novel in its own right as the disclosure of how that situation operates as a social force.