The Sri Lanka reader : history, culture, politics

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The Sri Lanka reader : history, culture, politics

John Clifford Holt, ed.

(The world readers / edited by Robin Kirk, Orin Starn)

Duke University Press, 2011

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [745]-750) and index

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内容説明

The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island's recorded history of more than two and a half millennia encompasses waves of immigration from the South Asian subcontinent, the formation of Sinhala Buddhist and Tamil Hindu civilizations, the arrival of Arab Muslim traders, and European colonization by the Portuguese, then the Dutch, and finally the British. Selected texts depict perceptions of the country's multiple linguistic and religious communities, as well as its political travails after independence in 1948, especially the ethnic violence that recurred from the 1950s until 2009, when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were defeated by the Sri Lankan government's armed forces. This wide-ranging anthology covers the aboriginal Veddhas, the earliest known inhabitants of the island; the Kings of Kandy, Sri Lanka's last indigenous dynasty; twenty-first-century women who leave the island to work as housemaids in the Middle East; the forty thousand Sri Lankans killed by the tsunami in December 2004; and, through cutting-edge journalism and heart-wrenching poetry, the protracted violence that has scarred the country's contemporary political history. Along with fifty-four images of paintings, sculptures, and architecture, The Sri Lanka Reader includes more than ninety classic and contemporary texts written by Sri Lankans and foreigners.

目次

List of Illustrations xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 I. From Ancient to Early Modern 9 II. The Colonial Encounter 133 Sri Lanka: National Identity and the Impact of Colonialism / K. M. da Silva 135 The Portuguese: An Introduction / Jorge Flores 152 The Dutch: An Introduction 189 The British: An Introduction 230 Kandyan Culture in the Colonial Era: An Introduction 295 Colonial Postscript: The Other Eden / Richard de Zoysa 328 III. Emerging Identities 331 Buddhist Identities: An Introduction 334 Muslim Identities: An Introduction 409 Tamil Identities: An Introduction 458 Christians and Burghers: An Introduction 559 Emergent Perspectives in Modern Art: the '43 Group-Formation of a Sri Lankan Avant-Garde / Larry D. Lutchmansingh 574 IV. Independence, Insurrections, and Social Change 589 V. Political Epilogue 713 Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 735 Suggestions for Further Reading 745 Index 753

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