UMMATH : Novel Of Community And Conflict
Sharmila Seyyid
UMMATH : Novel Of Community And Conflict - 1 - UP Harper Perennial 2018/01/01 - 352
Spanning the three decades of the deadly Sri Lankan civil war, Ummath highlights the plight of women across communal and ethnic divides. Through the lives of three women, Thawakkul, Yoga and Theivanai one a social activist, the other a Tamil Tiger forced into joining the movement as a child, and the third a disillusioned fighter for the Eelam the novel lays bare the complex equations that ruled life in Sri Lankan society during and in the aftermath of the civil war. In Ummath, Sharmila Seyyid once forced to live in exile for her outspoken, liberal views interrogates Islamist fundamentalism, Tamil nationalism and Sri Lankan majoritarian chauvinism with her characteristic courage, honesty and sensitivity.
9789352779017
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Fiction
Historical Fiction
translated from Tamil fiction
Sri Lanka -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2009 -- Participation, Female -- Fiction.
Military participation -- Female.
Sri Lanka.
F / SHA/UM
UMMATH : Novel Of Community And Conflict - 1 - UP Harper Perennial 2018/01/01 - 352
Spanning the three decades of the deadly Sri Lankan civil war, Ummath highlights the plight of women across communal and ethnic divides. Through the lives of three women, Thawakkul, Yoga and Theivanai one a social activist, the other a Tamil Tiger forced into joining the movement as a child, and the third a disillusioned fighter for the Eelam the novel lays bare the complex equations that ruled life in Sri Lankan society during and in the aftermath of the civil war. In Ummath, Sharmila Seyyid once forced to live in exile for her outspoken, liberal views interrogates Islamist fundamentalism, Tamil nationalism and Sri Lankan majoritarian chauvinism with her characteristic courage, honesty and sensitivity.
9789352779017
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Fiction
Historical Fiction
translated from Tamil fiction
Sri Lanka -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2009 -- Participation, Female -- Fiction.
Military participation -- Female.
Sri Lanka.
F / SHA/UM