Survival Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xvi, 133 pp.
Contains bibliogr. pp. 119-130, index
Series: Mobility & Politics
ISBN 978-1-137-44464-6 (ebook); 978-1-137-44463-9
"Through the narratives and movements of survivors of the war in Lanka these interconnected essays develop the concept of 'survival media' as embodied and expressive forms of mobility across borders." (Publisher description)
Introduction: Lethal Imaginaries of Nationalism: A Brief History in Checkpoints, 1
1 Lines of Flight: Survival Media, 19
2 Missing in Action: By All Media Necessary [on the cultural and biographical productions of diaspora hip-hop artist M.I.A.], 33
3 White Shores of Longing: Castaway Stories and Nation Dramas [on the play 'Theatre of Migration', directed by the Tamil-Australian dramatist Ernest Thalayasingham MacIntyre], 54
4 Accounting for Disposable Lives: Visibility, Atrocity and International Justice, 73
5 Territory of Ashes: A Disjointed Unfolding [on the mass rape-torture that followed the LTTE’s defeat], 93
Conclusion: 'From What Has Happened to What Will Come` [on the possibilities for reconciliation in the light of V.V. Ganeshananthan’s poem ‘We regret to inform you’], 112
1 Lines of Flight: Survival Media, 19
2 Missing in Action: By All Media Necessary [on the cultural and biographical productions of diaspora hip-hop artist M.I.A.], 33
3 White Shores of Longing: Castaway Stories and Nation Dramas [on the play 'Theatre of Migration', directed by the Tamil-Australian dramatist Ernest Thalayasingham MacIntyre], 54
4 Accounting for Disposable Lives: Visibility, Atrocity and International Justice, 73
5 Territory of Ashes: A Disjointed Unfolding [on the mass rape-torture that followed the LTTE’s defeat], 93
Conclusion: 'From What Has Happened to What Will Come` [on the possibilities for reconciliation in the light of V.V. Ganeshananthan’s poem ‘We regret to inform you’], 112
