Militarizing Sri Lanka
Subtitle: popular culture, memory and narrative in the armed conflict
By: Neloufer de Mel.
Publisher: Sage Publications; SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780761936350
Subjects: National security -- Sri Lanka; Nationalism and feminism -- Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka -- Politics and government -- 1978-; Sri Lanka -- Military policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Constituting martial virtue : the processes of militarization in Sri Lanka; title: Marketing war, marketing peace : mediating global capital and national security; title: Staging pain : the disabled soldier and the Butterflies Theatre; title: Allegories of war : the politics of childhood, mourning, and melancholia in the tales of the Butterfly Peace Garden; title: Figure of speech : the female suicide bomber, censorship, and the literary-cinematic site; title: The promise of the archive : memory, testimony, and feminist domains.