02998nam 2200649 a 450 991077917370332120200520144314.01-280-65970-X97866136366380-7391-6579-8(CKB)2550000000100928(EBL)914979(OCoLC)794620254(SSID)ssj0000659076(PQKBManifestationID)12256931(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000659076(PQKBWorkID)10694933(PQKB)10760532(MiAaPQ)EBC914979(Au-PeEL)EBL914979(CaPaEBR)ebr10559508(CaONFJC)MIL363663(EXLCZ)99255000000010092820120221d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTerror and reconciliation[electronic resource] Sri Lankan Anglophone literature, 1983-2009 /Maryse JayasuriyaLanham Lexington Books20121 online resource (193 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-6578-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Sri Lankan literature (English)20th centuryHistory and criticismSri Lankan literature (English)21st centuryHistory and criticismWar in literatureEthnic relations in literatureReconciliation in literatureSri LankaIn literatureSri Lankan literature (English)History and criticism.Sri Lankan literature (English)History and criticism.War in literature.Ethnic relations in literature.Reconciliation in literature.820.9/95493Jayasuriya Maryse1559365MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779173703321Terror and reconciliation3824389UNINA