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Performing ethnic identities in global economies: = Power and resistance in Sri Lanka's dirty war.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Performing ethnic identities in global economies:/
Reminder of title:	Power and resistance in Sri Lanka's dirty war.
Author:	Rajasingham, Nimanthi Eleka Rita.
Description:	1 online resource (226 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-04A(E).
Subject:	British & Irish literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781303637681

Performing ethnic identities in global economies: = Power and resistance in Sri Lanka's dirty war.
Rajasingham, Nimanthi Eleka Rita.

Performing ethnic identities in global economies:Power and resistance in Sri Lanka's dirty war. - 1 online resource (226 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

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This dissertation explores the aesthetics of contemporary globalization and ethnic war. It analyzes how literary texts and performances express the relationship between neoliberal doctrines, the idea that economies work best when least regulated, and ethnic wars in the global south. This work uses cultural examples from Sri Lanka as it was the first country in the South Asian region to open its economies to neoliberalism in the 1970s, and subsequently experienced thirty years of brutal ethnic war between the Sinhala majoritarian state and the minority Tamil Tigers. The cultural and aesthetic examples I analyze also demonstrate how both global forces and ethnic conflicts rework colonial and precolonial forms of power. Using an expanded definition of literature that takes us from the page to the stage and beyond, my chapters consider state-sponsored village festivals, workers' plays and everyday practices, high-culture performances, and diasporic prize-winning fiction. Each chapter illustrates how transnational networks linked to neoliberal doctrines--such as development aid into rural villages, multinational capital into export processing zones, and human rights regimes into conflict zones--are interpreted and performed, and how local conditions may change the character of neoliberalism. When I investigate creative expressions that refuse the logic of war and nationalism, I point to cross-cultural exchanges that provided artists with models for social protest. Sri Lankan examples add to literatures on globalization by scholars like Frederic Jameson, Gayatri Spivak, and David Harvey by expanding their theories of late capitalism to study its relationship to ethnic wars. Similarly, my work expands arguments made by scholars like Mahmood Mamdani, and Valentine Daniel by expanding their arguments about ethnic and communal violence by linking them to late capitalism.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781303637681Subjects--Topical Terms:

1148425
British & Irish literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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