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04729aam a2200589 i 4500 001 CBCEBA9C586511EA978CCE3397128E48 003 SILO 005 20200226010029 008 190410t20192019ilua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2019017385 020 $a 0810140756 020 $a 9780810140752 020 $a 0810140748 020 $a 9780810140745 035 $a (OCoLC)1080427849 040 $a INU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CUS $d YDX $d EAU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ce--- 050 00 $a PR9440.05 $b .P47 2019 082 04 $a 820.9/95493 $2 23 100 1 $a Perera-Rajasingham, Nimanthi, $e author. 245 10 $a Assembling ethnicities in neoliberal times : $b ethnographic fictions and Sri Lanka's war / $c Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham. 264 1 $a Evanston, Illinois : $b Northwestern University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a xi, 236 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Critical insurgencies 520 $a "Assembling Ethnicities in Neoliberal Times: Ethnographic Fictions and Sri Lanka's War" argues that Sri Lanka's bloody thirty year-long war, fought between the state and the separatist Tamil Tigers from 1983 to 2009, should be understood as structured and animated by the forces of global capitalism. Using Aihwa Ong's theorization of neoliberalism as a mobile technology and assemblage, this book explores how contemporary globalization, as an economic system and a governing rationality for the management of populations, has exacerbated forces of nationalism and racism. One of the book's key interventions is to argue that the form of Ethnographic Fictions is vital for understanding neoliberal assemblages. The fictions that belong to this form, "Assembling Ethnicities" suggests, have internalized certain colonial Orientalist impulses, but also critically engage with categories of objective gazing, empiricism, and temporal distancing. As the book demonstrates, such fictions take seriously the task of bearing witness, and documenting the complex productions of ethnic identities, and the devastations wrought by warfare. Arguing that ethnographic fictions is a more accurate term than realism for understanding the relationship between form, capitalism, and the production of races, Assembling Ethnicities begins by exploring the emergence of the form during colonialism by close-reading the travel writings of Robert Knox (1681) and Leonard Woolf (1913). Subsequently, the book interprets contemporary fictions to unpack neoliberalism's entanglements with nationalism and racism, engaging current issues such as human rights narratives, organicism, Tamil militancy, immigrant lives, feminism and nationalism, and postwar developmentalism--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- The factory is like the paddy field : Gam Udawa performances, neoliberalism, and Sinhala Buddhist nationalism -- In the shadows of neoliberalism : the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the many lives of Shobasakthi in Gorilla and Dheepan -- How bodies matter : working-class women's theater in a time of war -- Bearing witness : human rights, and the politics of solidarity in Anil's ghost and The Trojan women -- Conclusion. Cartographies of loss : postwar neoliberalism, international tourism, and the vital art of Romesh Gunesekera and Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan. 611 27 $a Civil War (Sri Lanka : 1983-2009) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907470 648 7 $a 1983-2009 $2 fast 650 0 $a Sri Lankan literature (English) $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Sri Lankan literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Civil war in literature. 650 0 $a Ethnicity in literature. 650 0 $a Ethnic relations in literature. 650 7 $a Civil war in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862888 650 7 $a Ethnic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916005 650 7 $a Ethnic relations in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916024 650 7 $a Ethnicity in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916067 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a Sri Lankan literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01131176 650 7 $a Sri Lankan literature (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01131177 651 0 $a Sri Lanka $x History $y Civil War, 1983-2009. 651 0 $a Sri Lanka $x Ethnic relations. 651 0 $a Sri Lanka $x In literature. 651 7 $a Sri Lanka. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01208730 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Critical insurgencies. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317023506.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CBCEBA9C586511EA978CCE3397128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search