“…Indeed, Funny Boy can be situated within a variety of literary and cultural contexts, including North American gay men's literature (see Bergman, 1991Lilly, 1993, or contemporary Canadian literature (see Maufort & Bellarsi, 2002), for example. However, this paper chooses to situate Funny Boy-and this reading of the novel-within the field of Sri Lankan literary production, an increasing portion of which is written overseas (see Perera, 2001Perera, , 2002.…”