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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jayasuriya, Maryse.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sri Lankan literature (English)--20th century--History and criticism.

Sri Lankan literature (English).

Sri Lankan literature (English)--21st century--History and criticism.

Sri Lanka--In literature.

Sri Lanka.

War in literature.

Ethnic relations in literature.

Reconciliation in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 183 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2012]

Summary:

Terror and Reconciliation: Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature, 1983-2009 explores the English-language literature that has emerged from Sri Lanka's quarter-century-long ethnic conflict. It examines poetry, short fiction, and novels by both diasporic writers and writers resident in Sri Lanka. Its discussion of resident Sri Lankan writers is particularly important because it calls attention to a rich and ambitious body of work that has largely been ignored in Western academia and media until now. This book outlines the ways in which a wide range of resident and diasporic writers have sought to represent the conflict, mourn the violence and terror associated with the conflict, and present options for reconciliation in the conflict's aftermath. The writers discussed grapple with issues of terrorism, human rights, nationalism, war, democracy, gender, ethnicity, and reconciliation, making this a study of profound interest for students and scholars of South Asian literature and culture, postcolonial studies, race and ethnic studies, women's studies, and peace studies. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739165782

073916578X

9780739165799

0739165798

OCLC:

769990504