Harshana Rambukwella is a Senior Lecturer at the Postgraduate Institute of English, The Open University of Sri Lanka and Honorary Assistant Professor at the School of English, University of Hong Kong. He completed his doctoral research at the School of English, University of Hong Kong on narratives of nationalism in Sri Lanka and their representation in historical and literary texts. He is also the General Editor of the Hong Kong English Literature Database. He has published in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, The Literary Encylopedia, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Fiction and the Routledge Handbook of World Englishes. His primary research interests are in postcolonial literatures and theory, representations of nationalism in the South Asian context and the role of historical narratives and historiography in community identity. [Read]