Maryse Jayasuriya

Terror and Reconciliation

Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature, 1983-2009

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780739165782
• ISBN-10: 073916578X
• Artikelnr.: 35054435

Autorenporträt

By Maryse Jayasuriya

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature and the Problem of Publication
Part I: Island Dialogues Chapter 2: Mourning Terror: Memorials to the
Conflict in Poetry and Film Chapter 3: Talking with the Enemy: Dialogue and
Empathy in Fiction Part II: Diasporic Interventions Chapter 4: Interpreting
the Conflict: Historiography and Sri Lankan Fiction Chapter 5: Diasporic
Differences: The Sri Lankan Conflict from a Distance Conclusion