Re-engaging Sri Lanka as a site for reconciliation or a perpetuation of trauma

Roma Tearne's Brixton Beach

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19005952
AutoresJeslyn Sharnita Amarasekera (0009-0003-2073-1927, National University of Malaysia, autor de correspondencia), Pillai (0000-0002-7555-5698, National University of Malaysia)
Año2015
Volumen7
Número2
Páginas97-109
Fecha de publicación2015-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSouth Asian Diaspora (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1943-8184 • E-ISSN: 1943-8192
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19438192.2014.994282
OpenAlexW2076863469
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas9

Memory and home are often at the core of transnational diasporic writings. Transnational Sri Lankan writers are no exception as one often finds that the homeland of Sri Lanka is often the site for memories that jostle between spaces that are both pleasant and traumatic. This paper focuses on the ways in which Brixton Beach, a novel by transnational writer Roma Tearne, explores the intricacies of the Sri Lankan relationship amongst family members and ethnic members of the society. The discussion, framed by Avtar Brah's concept of home as both mythic desire and lived locality, will delve into the memories of Sri Lanka that emerge in the narrative thread to ultimately uncover whether these memories point at a sense of reconciliation or a perpetuation of trauma that heightens the exile from the homeland

Art · Diaspora · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Historical trauma · Homeland · Literature · Locality · Media studies · Multiculturalism · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · South asia · Sri lanka · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Socioeconomic Development in Asia