1st Edition
Revolution, War, and Protest in Sri Lanka From Armed Struggle to Non-Violent Resistance
Foreword by Nira Wickramasinghe
Introduction and Chronology of Protest
Part I: Revolution and Militant Violence (1971-2009)
Chapter 1: Maternalist Protest and the Insurgent Body in Visakesha Chandrasekaram’s Paangshu and Munnel
Nalin Jayasena
Chapter 2: The Authority of the Dead and Eco-critical Ethics of Witnessing" in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
Pavithra Tantrigoda
Chapter 3: The Colonial Legacy of State Violence and Tamil Militancy in Shobasakthi’s Ichaa
Anushiya Ramaswamy
Chapter 4: 1971, Aragalaya, and the Limits of Democracy
Thushara Hewage
Part 2: Postwar Politics (2009 to present)
Chapter 5: Protest and Power Dynamics during Sri Lanka’s post-2015 Transitional Justice Period
Tara Quinn
Chapter 6: War-torn Bodies and the Unmaking of Nationalist Discourse in Bandu Manamperi’s Performance Art
Sandamini Ranwalage
Chapter 7: Feminists Engaging with a Racist State in Anticipation of Progressive Law Reform
Farzana Haniffa
Part 3: Civil Disobedience and the Aragalaya (2022)
Chapter 8: Functions of Facebook in the 2022 Sri Lankan Struggle
John C. Paolillo
Chapter 9: “Memoryscapes” of Sri Lanka’s Aragala Bhoomiya as a People’s Space of Protest
Radhika Hettiarachchi and Samal Vimukthi Hemachandra
Chapter 10: Performativity and the Corporealization of Civility in the 2022 Sri Lankan Struggle/Aragalaya/Porattam
Prabha Manuratne
Afterword
Biography
Nalin Jayasena is Associate Professor in the Department of English and an affiliate of the Department of Global & Intercultural Studies at Miami University of Ohio. He has published critical essays on Sri Lankan cinema in a range of peer-reviewed venues and is currently completing a monograph on films of the Sri Lankan armed conflict.
