Militarizing Sri Lanka : popular culture, memory and narrative in the armed conflict /

Militarizing Sri Lanka is a study of the militarization that has buttressed. the war between the Sri Lankan state and the LTTE for over two decades. It highlights. militarization as a process through which the ideology of militarism is shaped. and shared in a manner that makes militant solutions to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: De Mel, Neloufer
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2007.
Subjects:
Since 1978
National security > Sri Lanka.
Nationalism and feminism > Sri Lanka.
Nationalisme et féminisme > Sri Lanka.
HISTORY.
Military policy
National security
Nationalism and feminism
Politics and government
Sri Lanka > Politics and government > 1978-
Sri Lanka > Military policy.
Sri Lanka > Politique et gouvernement > 1978-
Sri Lanka
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Constituting martial virtue : the processes of militarization in Sri Lanka
  • Marketing war, marketing peace : mediating global capital and national security
  • Staging pain : the disabled soldier and the Butterflies Theatre
  • Allegories of war : the politics of childhood, mourning and melancholia in the tales of the Butterfly Peace Garden
  • Figure of speech : the female suicide bomber, censorship and the literary-cinematic site
  • The promise of the archive : memory, testimony and feminist domains.

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