Terror, Trauma, Transitions

Because of Sri Lanka's 26-year-long ethnic conflict between the Sri Lankan government and militant groups like the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the comparatively brief but bloody conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Janata Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), violence has occup...

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Autor: Jayasuriya, Maryse
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:149128
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/149128
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/indialogs.48
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Violence
Terrorism
War
Memory
Sri Lanka
Ethnicity
Literature
Reconciliation
Violencia
Terrorismo
Guerra
Memoria
Etnicidad
Literatura
Reconciliación
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Sumario:Because of Sri Lanka's 26-year-long ethnic conflict between the Sri Lankan government and militant groups like the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the comparatively brief but bloody conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Janata Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), violence has occupied an important place in contemporary Sri Lankan literature. This essay surveys the role of violence in contemporary Sri Lanka literature in English, Tamil, and Sinhala, considering the ways in which literature bears witness to violence, mourns violence, protests violence, and calls for and models dialogue and reconciliation.