Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Art
The Creation of a New Community in the Aftermath of War
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Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Art
The Creation of a New Community in the Aftermath of War
About this book
This volume brings together art, literature, and critical analyses to examine which concepts and blueprints of (re-)negotiation of national, ethnic and religious identities may pave the way towards a more inclusive yet open and plural Sri Lankan society. It looks to develop new, creative, and alternative concepts of community and nation-building as envisaged in Sri Lanka's rich contemporary art scene, i.e. literature, theatre, film, and performing and visual arts. The individual chapters authored by prominent academics as well as renowned artists critically engage with a pertinent selection of contemporary Sri Lankan works of art and their visions of what a multi-ethnic, multi-religious Sri Lanka might look like in the aftermath of three decades of war, a severe economic crisis and the tenacious protests of 2022 (Aragalaya).
The first of its kind, this volume includes analyses ranging from disciplines such as Anthropology, Literary and Cultural Studies, Film and Performance Studies, South Asian Studies and Art History to topics such as the question of truth in testimonial literature, Buddhist nationalism, Sinhala identity politics and the (im)possibility of transitional justice. It is supplemented with interviews and unpublished short stories and poetry from well-known resident and diasporic Sri Lankan writers as well as art originating from the Aragalaya.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Editors
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Sri Lanka and the Art of New Alternatives: The Creation of a New Community in the Aftermath of War
- 2 Sri Lanka’s Postcolonial/Post-Civil War Conundrum, Transitional Justice and the Power of Art
- 3 Homi Bhabha’s False Hope?: Hybrid Culture and Identity Politics in Paanama, Sri Lanka
- 4 Affective Justice for an Ineffective Transition: Visceral, Vicarious Responsibility in Paangshu and Demons in Paradise
- 5 Living in the Past: Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism and Post-War Sinhala Cinema in Sri Lanka
- 6 Space and Emotions, Remembering Traumas: The Politics of Post-War Landscape Paintings in Sri Lanka
- 7 ‘Traitors’/‘Terrorists’ and the Art of Self-Censorship
- 8 Artful Struggles: Art in the Aftermath of the Aragalaya-Porattam
- 9 “Audit the President, Parliament, Armed Forces and Police! Investigate!”: An Interview with Sujith Rathnayake
- 10 The Enactment of Community in Sri Lankan Artistic Practice: Performance, Public Space, Politics
- 11 Sri Lankan Witness Literature: The New Poetics of Affective Truth-telling in Post-War Testimonial Narrative
- 12 A Queer Voice in the Narration of Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Conflict: Queer Visceral Embodiment and Sri Lankan Tamil Diasporic Women’s Writing
- 13 Creating Meaning out of Dirt: Rituals, Taboos and the Abject in Anuk Arudpragasam’s The Story of a Brief Marriage
- 14 The Ontologies of Morality in Anuk Arudpragasam’s A Passage North
- 15 Selected Poems I
- 16 Selected Poems II
- 17 ZimZalaBim
- 18 The Good Parents
- 19 Homecoming
- Index