The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history
of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India.
The island’s recorded history of more than two and a half
millennia encompasses waves of immigration from the South Asian
subcontinent, the formation of Sinhala Buddhist and Tamil Hindu
civilizations, the arrival of Arab Muslim traders, and European
colonization by the Portuguese, then the Dutch, and finally the
British. Selected texts depict perceptions of the country’s
multiple linguistic and religious communities, as well as its
political travails after independence in 1948, especially the
ethnic violence that recurred from the 1950s until 2009, when the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were defeated by the Sri Lankan
government’s armed forces. This wide-ranging anthology covers the
aboriginal Veddhas, the earliest known inhabitants of the island;
the Kings of Kandy, Sri Lanka’s last indigenous dynasty;
twenty-first-century women who leave the island to work as
housemaids in the Middle East; the forty thousand Sri Lankans
killed by the tsunami in December 2004; and, through cutting-edge
journalism and heart-wrenching poetry, the protracted violence that
has scarred the country’s contemporary political history. Along
with fifty-four images of paintings, sculptures, and architecture,
The Sri Lanka Reader includes more than ninety classic and
contemporary texts written by Sri Lankans and foreigners.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
The World Readers |
| Release date: |
April 2011 |
| First published: |
March 2011 |
| Editors: |
John Clifford Holt
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 49mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
792 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-4982-2 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
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| LSN: |
0-8223-4982-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780822349822 |
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