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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255233103321

Autore

Perera S

Titolo

Survival Media : The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka / / by S. Perera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-44464-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 p.)

Collana

Mobility & Politics, , 2731-3875

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Culture - Study and teaching

Communication

Emigration and immigration

Political science

Poetry

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

Media and Communication

Human Migration

Political Science

Poetry and Poetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; In Lieu of . . .; Preface: The Location of the Aftermath; List of Abbreviations; Introduction-Lethal Imaginaries of Nationalism: A Brief History in Checkpoints; 1 Lines of Flight: Survival Media; 2 Missing in Action: By All Media Necessary; 3 White Shores of Longing: Castaway Stories and Nation Dramas; 4 Accounting for Disposable Lives: Visibility, Atrocity and International Justice; 5 Territory of Ashes: A Disjointed Unfolding; Conclusion-'From What Has Happened to What Will Come'; Afterword; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on a variety of expressive forms and acts - the movements of



refugee boats, the poetics of hip-hop, narratives of atrocity and survival - this book develops the concept of 'survival media' though the stories and mobilities of the thirty-year war in Sri Lanka. Moving between the hip-hop of M.I.A. and Human Rights reports, satellite maps and survivor testimonies, it shows how this war in a small country is also enmeshed with critical global issues such as the effects of the war on terror, the formations of diasporic identities and the hardening politics of borders.