Assembling ethnicities in neoliberal times : ethnographic fictions and Sri Lanka's war /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Perera-Rajasingham, Nimanthi (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019.
Series:Critical insurgencies.
Subjects:
1983-2009
Sri Lankan literature (English) > History and criticism.
Sri Lankan literature > History and criticism.
Civil war in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Ethnic relations in literature.
Littérature sri-lankaise (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature sri-lankaise > Histoire et critique.
Guerre civile dans la littérature.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
Relations interethniques dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Civil war in literature
Ethnic relations
Ethnic relations in literature
Ethnicity in literature
Literature
Sri Lankan literature
Sri Lankan literature (English)
Sri Lanka > History > Civil War, 1983-2009.
Sri Lanka > Ethnic relations.
Sri Lanka > In literature.
Sri Lanka > Histoire > 1983-2009 (Guerre civile)
Sri Lanka
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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