1st Edition
Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Art The Creation of a New Community in the Aftermath of War
1. Sri Lanka and the Art of New Alternatives: The Creation of a New Community in the Aftermath of War
Stefan Horlacher
2. Sri Lanka's Postcolonial/Post-Civil War Conundrum, Transitional Justice and the Power of Art
Stefan Horlacher
3. Homi Bhabha's False Hope? Hybrid Culture and Identity Politics in Paanama, Sri Lanka
Benedikt Korf and Thamali Kithsiri
4. Affective Justice for an Ineffective Transition: Visceral, Vicarious Responsibility in Paangshu and Demons in Paradise
Lars Waldorf and Nilanjana Premaratna
5. Living in the Past: Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism and Post-war Sinhala Cinema in Sri Lanka
Neluka Silva
6. Space and Emotions, Remembering Traumas: The Politics of Post-War Landscape Paintings in Sri Lanka
Priyantha Udagedara
7. 'Traitors'/'Terrorists' and the Art of Self-Censorship
Thamotharampillai Sanathanan
8. Artful Struggles: Art in the Aftermath of the Aragalaya-Porattam
Lars Waldorf and Nilanjana Premaratna
9. "Audit the President, Parliament, Armed Forces and Police! Investigate!" — An Interview with Sujith Rathnayake
Stefan Horlacher
10. The Enactment of Community in Sri Lankan Artistic Practice: Performance, Public Space, Politics
Ruhanie Perera
11. Sri Lankan Witness Literature: The New Poetics of Affective Truth-telling in Post-war Testimonial Narrative
Minoli Salgado
12. A Queer Voice in the Narration of Sri Lanka's Ethnic Conflict: Queer Visceral Embodiment and Sri Lankan Tamil Diasporic Women's Writing
Shermal Wijewardene
13. Creating Meaning out of Dirt: Rituals, Taboos and the Abject in Anuk Arudpragasam's The Story of a Brief Marriage
Stefan Horlacher and Thilini Meegaswatta
14. The Ontologies of Morality in Anuk Arudpragasam's A Passage North
Neloufer de Mel
15. In an Occupied Land, Uncertainty, Interviewing an Unearthed Skeleton, A Silent Follower
Ayathurai Santhan
16. There aren't enough gods in this world, Canal in Colombo
Vivimarie Vanderpoorten
17. Zimzalabim
Minoli Salgado
18. The Good Parents
Ameena Hussein
19. Homecoming
Romesh Gunesekera
Biography
Stefan Horlacher is Chair of English Literature at Dresden University of Technology, Germany.
Thilini Meegaswatta is a lecturer at the Open University of Sri Lanka.
