Sasanka Perera: 2 books
Violence and the Burden of Memory
Remembrance and Erasure in Sinhala Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Post-Independence Sri Lanka has been wracked by decades of civil war and political violence, particularly from the late 1970s to 2009. These protracted conflicts have been immensely destructive, resulting in many thousands of deaths and disappearances, both of armed personnel (whether of the Sri Lankan...
Warzone Tourism in Sri Lanka
Tales from Darker Places in Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
An ethnographic study on internal travel analysed through the perspectives of Sinhala tourists going from the South to the war-ravaged North.
Warzone Tourism in Sri Lanka explores travellers’ narratives that reflect the experiences and interactions of those going to northern Sri Lanka, and...