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Enemy lines : childhood, warfare, and play in Batticaloa / Margaret Trawick.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trawick, Margaret.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tamil (Indic people)--Wars--Sri Lanka--Batticaloa District.
- Tamil (Indic people).
- Tamil (Indic people)--Sri Lanka--Batticaloa District--Social conditions.
- Children--Sri Lanka--Batticaloa District--Social conditions.
- Children.
- Children and war--Sri Lanka--Batticaloa District.
- Children and war.
- Children and violence--Sri Lanka--Batticaloa District.
- Children and violence.
- Social conditions.
- War.
- Batticaloa District (Sri Lanka)--Social conditions.
- Batticaloa District (Sri Lanka).
- Tamil̲īl̲a Viṭutalaippulikaḷ (Association).
- Sri Lanka--Batticaloa District.
- Sri Lanka.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 307 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Enemy lines : warfare, childhood, and play in Batticaloa
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- "Enemy Lines "captures the extraordinary story of boys and girls coming of age during a civil war. Margaret Trawick lived and worked in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka, where thousands of youths have been recruited into the Sri Lankan armed resistance movement known as the Tamil Tigers. This compelling account of her experiences is a powerful exploration of how children respond to the presence of war and how adults have responded to the presence of children in this conflict. Her beautifully written account, which includes voices of the teenagers and young adults who have joined the Tamil Tigers, brings alive a region where childhood, warfare, and play have become commingled in a world of continuous uncertainty.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The past
- March 1996
- Vasanta and Rosa
- About Vithusa
- What Menan showed me
- Girls in the LTTE
- Boys in the LTTE
- Spectacles and mysteries
- Look for what you do not see.
- Notes:
- "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P [ii].
- "A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies"--P. [4] of cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-297) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780520245150
- 0520245156
- 9780520245167
- 0520245164
- OCLC:
- 70866875
- Online:
- Publisher description
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