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Informationen zum Autor Maryse Jayasuriya is assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. She has published essays on South Asian literature in the South Asian Review, Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, and the edited collection South Asia and Its Others: Reading the "Exotic." She is an executive board member of the South Asian Literary Association and the editor of the South Asian Literary Association Newsletter. Her Ph.D. in postcolonial literature and theory is from Purdue University, and she is also a proud alumna of Mount Holyoke College. Klappentext Terror and Reconciliation examines the response of Sri Lankan novelists, short story writers, and poets to the issues of terrorism, war, human rights, linguistic discrimination, and interethnic dialogue raised by the quarter-century long ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka and argues that their work demonstrates the potential of literature to contribute to reconciliation. This study will be of particular interest to scholars of South Asian Literature and Culture, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, and Peace Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature and the Problem of Publication Part I: Island Dialogues Chapter 2: Mourning Terror: Memorials to the Conflict in Poetry and Film Chapter 3: Talking with the Enemy: Dialogue and Empathy in Fiction Part II: Diasporic Interventions Chapter 4: Interpreting the Conflict: Historiography and Sri Lankan Fiction Chapter 5: Diasporic Differences: The Sri Lankan Conflict from a Distance Conclusion
