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Dear all,
Please keep checking this space before your weekly session, as I will be posting the latest announcements about the seminar here.
Please browse through the seminar outline and reader below. Please check/read/watch the readings/videos for the first session beforehand. You may find that some readings in the reader are still missing (yellow marked), and will be added at a later date.
Kindly note that you are expected to obtain a copy of the primary texts/novels. Please let me know if that is a problem, and I will look into solutions.
Looking forward to meeting you all.
Pavan Malreddy -
Watch the documentary A Desperate War before the first session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKrCQ3yH5z8
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In this session we will get a basic introduction toi Sri Lanka, its demography, ethnic and political diversity. We will work with two readings in the reader. One will give emperical insights and the other literary.
1. “The Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka” by Sasanka Perera
2. “The Moments No One Wants to Remember” by Birte Heidemann
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We will be discussing two short autobiographical texts of the authors in the session:
3. “Reading for My Life” by Shyam Selvadurai
4. “One House: Meditations on Home” by Nayomi Munaweera
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We will be discussing two essays:
5. “Contestation, Marginality and Transnationalism” by Maryse Jayasuriya & Aparna Halpe
6. “Terror, Trauma and Transition…” by Marsye Jayasurya
We will also be preparing for the next session, the novel Song of the Sun God by Shankari Chandran. Shankar will attend the session via zoom in the last 45 minutes from Sydney. Kindly ensure that you have made yourself familiar with the the novel! Please bring the novel tomorrow.
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Shankari Chandran’s novel The Song of the Sun God.