Militarizing Sri Lanka popular culture, memory and narrative in the armed conflict /

De Mel, Neloufer.

Militarizing Sri Lanka popular culture, memory and narrative in the armed conflict / [electronic resource] : Neloufer de Mel. - New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2007. - 1 online resource (329 p.)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.

9788132100072 (electronic bk.) 8132100077 (electronic bk.)


National security--Sri Lanka.
Nationalism and feminism--Sri Lanka.


Sri Lanka--Politics and government--1978-
Sri Lanka--Military policy.


Electronic books.

HN670.8.Z9 / C73 2007eb

954.9303/2

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