Survival Media [electronic resource] : The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka /
Perera, S.author.
Drawing on a variety of expressive forms and acts - the movements of refugee boats, the poetics of hip-hop, narratives of atrocity and survival - this book develops the concept of 'survival media' though the stories and mobilities of the thirty-year war in Sri Lanka. Moving between the hip-hop of M.I.A. and Human Rights reports, satellite maps and survivor testimonies, it shows how this war in a small country is also enmeshed with critical global issues such as the effects of the war on terror, the formations of diasporic identities and the hardening politics of borders.
Description based upon print version of record.
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; In Lieu of . . .; Preface: The Location of the Aftermath; List of Abbreviations; Introduction-Lethal Imaginaries of Nationalism: A Brief History in Checkpoints; 1 Lines of Flight: Survival Media; 2 Missing in Action: By All Media Necessary; 3 White Shores of Longing: Castaway Stories and Nation Dramas; 4 Accounting for Disposable Lives: Visibility, Atrocity and International Justice; 5 Territory of Ashes: A Disjointed Unfolding; Conclusion-'From What Has Happened to What Will Come'; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drawing on a variety of expressive forms and acts - the movements of refugee boats, the poetics of hip-hop, narratives of atrocity and survival - this book develops the concept of 'survival media' though the stories and mobilities of the thirty-year war in Sri Lanka. Moving between the hip-hop of M.I.A. and Human Rights reports, satellite maps and survivor testimonies, it shows how this war in a small country is also enmeshed with critical global issues such as the effects of the war on terror, the formations of diasporic identities and the hardening politics of borders.
Civil War (Sri Lanka : 1983-2009)
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Communication.
Emigration and immigration.
Political science.
Poetry.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Media Studies.
Migration.
Political Science.
Poetry and Poetics.