Militarizing Sri Lanka: popular culture, memory and narrative in the armed conflict
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Main Author: De Mel, Neloufer (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi, India Sage Publications 2007
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-318) and index
Constituting martial virtue : the processes of militarization in Sri Lanka -- Marketing war, marketing peace : mediating global capital and national security -- Staging pain : the disabled soldier and the Butterflies Theatre -- Allegories of war : the politics of childhood, mourning and melancholia in the tales of the Butterfly Peace Garden -- Figure of speech : the female suicide bomber, censorship and the literary-cinematic site -- The promise of the archive : memory, testimony and feminist domains
Militarizing Sri Lanka is a study of the militarization that has buttressed. the war between the Sri Lankan state and the LTTE for over two decades. It highlights. militarization as a process through which the ideology of militarism is shaped. and shared in a manner that makes militant solutions to conflict a part of institutional. structures and ways of thought. It foregrounds militarization as activity and. agency, capable of adaptation and transforming society in significant ways; and. as a deeply gendered, contingent and shifting process. It also analyzes both the. construction and resista
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (329 pages)
ISBN:1281965731
8132100077
817829799X
9781281965738
9788132100072
9788178297996

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