1st Edition
Writing Violence and Buddhism in Sri Lanka Of Hungry Ghosts and Homecomings
By Nimmi N. Menike
Copyright 2022
156 Pages
by
Routledge India
156 Pages
by
Routledge India
156 Pages
by
Routledge India
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This book examines the idea of violence in the context of religion and literature. It addresses the question of freedom and peace, and violence, with reference to the Buddhist nationalist discourse in Sri Lanka, against the backdrop of Shyam Selvadurai’s novel, The Hungry Ghosts. The book discusses love, compassion, emancipation, ethics and responsibility through the concepts of identity,... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1: Promise to Remember
Chapter 2: Violence: Love and Hospitality
Chapter 3: Love that B(l)inds
Chapter 4: Future (Free) from Hate
References
Biography
Nimmi N. Menike is Senior Lecturer, Department of Language Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Open University of Sri Lanka. She was Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India for two years, and completed her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research informs language and literature in addressing violence in the context of constructing identities. She also volunteers at Daham Pahana, a charitable trust in Sri Lanka.
