Terror and reconciliation : Sri Lankan Anglophone literature, 1983-2009 / Maryse Jayasuriya.

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Jayasuriya, Maryse

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.Description: 1 online resource (x, 183 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780739165799
0739165798
9786613636638
6613636630

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Terror and reconciliationDDC classification:

820.9/95493 23

LOC classification:

PR9440.05

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Contents:

Sri Lankan Anglophone literature and the problem of publication -- Island dialogues. Mourning terror: memorials to the conflict in poetry and film -- Talking with the enemy: dialogue and empathy in fiction -- Diasporic interventions. Interpreting the conflict: historiography and Sri Lankan fiction -- Diasporic differences: the Sri Lankan conflict from a distance -- Conclusion.

Summary: Terror and Reconciliation examines the response of Sri Lankan novelists, short story writers, and poets to the issues of terrorism, war, human rights, linguistic discrimination, and interethnic dialogue raised by the quarter-century long ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka and argues that their work demonstrates the potential of literature to contribute to reconciliation. This study will be of particular interest to scholars of South Asian Literature and Culture, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, and Peace Studies.

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Terror and Reconciliation examines the response of Sri Lankan novelists, short story writers, and poets to the issues of terrorism, war, human rights, linguistic discrimination, and interethnic dialogue raised by the quarter-century long ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka and argues that their work demonstrates the potential of literature to contribute to reconciliation. This study will be of particular interest to scholars of South Asian Literature and Culture, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, and Peace Studies.

English.

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