Reflection of Anti-imperialism in “The Village in the Jungle” by Leonard Wolf.

Abstract

The objective of this study is to identify the depiction of anti-imperialism of Leonard Woolf's novel Village in the Jungle and to see the techniques that the author has used to point out the said concept in the Sri Lankan contexts. This research has done based on library research. Even though ‘The Village in the Jungle’ is a famous novel in Sri Lanka, it has not done its way through the British society since it was ignored by the main stream of the British society. This study has found out that the writer has used characterization in the text to highlight the notion of anti-imperialism in the text. Mainly, it has identified that the character of Silindu, Babun and Babehami have been used to depict the said concept. In addition to the characterization, the employment of language also can be seen as a fact to talk about the anti-imperialism. The study has found out that the language and the wording of the text do much on the concept of anti-imperialism in the novel ‘The Village in the Joungle’.