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Assembling Ethnicities in Neoliberal Times : Ethnographic Fictions and Sri Lanka's War /

"Assembling Ethnicities in Neoliberal Times: Ethnographic Fictions and Sri Lanka's War" argues that Sri Lanka's bloody thirty year-long war, fought between the state and the separatist Tamil Tigers from 1983 to 2009, should be understood as structured and animated by the forces o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Perera-Rajasingham, Nimanthi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The factory is like the paddy field: Gam Udawa performances, neoliberalism, and Sinhala Buddhist nationalism
  • In the shadows of neoliberalism: the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the many lives of Shobasakthi in Gorilla and Dheepan
  • How bodies matter: working-class women's theater in a time of war
  • Bearing witness: human rights, and the politics of solidarity in Anil's ghost and The Trojan women
  • Conclusion. Cartographies of loss: postwar neoliberalism, international tourism, and the vital art of Romesh Gunesekera and Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan.