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In My Mother's House - Civil War in Sri Lanka (Paperback)
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In My Mother's House - Civil War in Sri Lanka (Paperback)
Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence
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In May 2009, the Sri Lankan army overwhelmed the last stronghold of
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam-better known as the Tamil
Tigers-officially bringing an end to nearly three decades of civil
war. Although the war has ended, the place of minorities in Sri
Lanka remains uncertain, not least because the lengthy conflict
drove entire populations from their homes. The figures are jarring:
for example, all of the roughly 80,000 Muslims in northern Sri
Lanka were expelled from the Tamil Tiger-controlled north, and
nearly half of all Sri Lankan Tamils were displaced during the
course of the civil war. Sharika Thiranagama's In My Mother's House
provides ethnographic insight into two important groups of
internally displaced people: northern Sri Lankan Tamils and Sri
Lankan Muslims. Through detailed engagement with ordinary people
struggling to find a home in the world, Thiranagama explores the
dynamics within and between these two minority communities,
describing how these relations were reshaped by violence,
displacement, and authoritarianism. In doing so, she illuminates an
often overlooked intraminority relationship and new social forms
created through protracted war. In My Mother's House revolves
around three major themes: ideas of home in the midst of profound
displacement; transformations of familial experience; and the
impact of the political violence-carried out by both the Tamil
Tigers and the Sri Lankan state-on ordinary lives and public
speech. Her rare focus on the effects and responses to LTTE
political regulation and violence demonstrates that envisioning a
peaceful future for postconflict Sri Lanka requires taking stock of
the new Tamil and Muslim identities forged by the civil war. These
identities cannot simply be cast away with the end of the war but
must be negotiated anew.
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