Book Launch – Art Installation/Artists in Dialogue – Roundtable Discussion

Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Art: The Creation of a New Community in the Aftermath of War edited by Stefan Horlacher (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) and Thilini Meegaswatta (Open University of Sri Lanka) brings together critical and creative works of prominent academics from Sri Lanka and abroad as well as renowned artists and authors. The contributions critically engage with a pertinent selection of contemporary Sri Lankan literature, theatre, film, and performing and visual arts to examine new, creative, and alternative concepts of community and nation-building. The first of its kind, this volume includes analyses ranging from disciplines such as Anthropology, Literary and Cultural Studies, Film and Performance Studies, South Asian Studies and Art History to topics such as the question of truth in testimonial literature, Buddhist nationalism, Sinhala identity politics and the (im)possibility of transitional justice. It is supplemented with interviews and unpublished short stories and poetry from well-known resident and diasporic Sri Lankan writers as well as art originating from the Aragalaya.

List of Contributors

•  Introduction and Welcome (Thilini Meegaswatta; Stefan Horlacher)

• Artists in Dialogue: Sujith Rathnayake and Priyantha Udagedara

• Review of/Introduction to Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Art: The Creation

  of a New Community in the Aftermath of War (Dr Shashikala Assella)

• Round table/public discussion with editors and contributors

• Refreshments
  

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