Abiding by Sri Lanka

Name: Abiding by Sri Lanka
Brand: University of Minnesota Press
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On Peace, Place, and Postcolonality

Автор: Qadri Ismail

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: University of Minnesota Press

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The lack of peace in Sri Lanka is commonly portrayed as a consequence of a violent, ethnonationalist...

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Автор

Qadri Ismail

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2005

страници

300

EAN

9780816642557

ISBN

0816642559

Enbook ID

04729582

Издател

University of Minnesota Press

Теглоt

426

Размери

149 x 229 x 17

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The lack of peace in Sri Lanka is commonly portrayed as a consequence of a violent, ethnonationalist conflict between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority. Viewed in this light, resolution could be attained through conflict management. But, as Qadri Ismail reveals, this is too simplistic an understanding and cannot produce lasting peace. "Abiding by Sri Lanka" examines how the disciplines of anthropology, history, and literature treat the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. Anthropology, Ismail contends, approaches Sri Lanka as an object from an "outside" and western point of view. History, addressing the conflict from the "inside," abides by the place and so promotes change that is nationalist and exclusive. Neither of these fields imagines an inclusive community. Literature, Ismail argues, can. With close readings of texts that "abide" by Sri Lanka, texts that have a commitment to it, Ismail demonstrates that the problems in Sri Lanka raise fundamental concerns for us all regarding the relationship between democracies and minorities. Recognizing the structural as well as political tendencies of representative democracies to suppress minorities, Ismail rethinks democracy by redefining the concept of the minority perspective, not as a subject-position of numerical insignificance, but as a conceptual space that opens up the possibility for distinction without domination and, ultimately, peace. Qadri Ismail is associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota. He has also been a journalist in Sri Lanka.

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On Peace, Place, and Postcolonality

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