Terror, Trauma, Transitions: Representing Violence in Sri Lankan Literature

Maryse Jayasuriya

doi:10.5565/rev/indialogs.48

Terror, trauma y transición: representaciones de la violencia en la literatura de Sri Lanka

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Maryse Jayasuriya University of Texas at El Paso

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Resumen

A causa de veintiséis años de conflicto étnico en Sri Lanka entre el gobierno y los grupos militantes como Los Tigres de Liberación de Eelam Tamil (LTTE) y al mismo tiempo, el conflicto, breve pero sangriento, entre el gobierno de Sri Lanka y Janata Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), la violencia ha ocupado un lugar importante en la literatura esrilanquesa contemporánea. Este estudio examina el papel actual de la violencia en la literatura esrilanquesa en inglés de Tamil y Sinhala, teniendo en cuenta las maneras en las cuales la literatura es un testimonio escrito que lamenta, protesta en contra de la violencia y hace un llamamiento a los modelos de diálogo y reconciliación.

Palabras clave

violencia, terrorismo, guerra, memoria, Sri Lanka, ethnicidad, literatura, reconciliación

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Biografía del autor/a

Maryse Jayasuriya, University of Texas at El Paso

Maryse Jayasuriya is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. She received her Ph.D. from Purdue University. She is the author of Terror and Reconciliation: Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature, 1983-2009 (Lexington, 2012), which explores the English language literature that has emerged from Sri Lanka’s quarter-century long ethnic conflict. She has published articles on South Asian and Asian-American literature in such venues as South Asian Review, Journeys, Margins, and The Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies. She co-edited a Special Issue of South Asian Review (33.3) entitled Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature.