Narratives of Conciliation: Post-war Sri Lankan Literature in English

和解叙事：战后斯里兰卡英语文学

• 批准号: 491172166
• 负责人: Dr. Birte Heidemann-Malreddy, Ph.D.
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Professur für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2021-12-31 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/491172166?language=en
• 关键词: Narratives; Conciliation; Post; war; Sri

This project explores the cultural politics of reconciliation in post-war Sri Lanka since the ending of the three decades long civil war between the Army and the insurgents of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009. The project seizes upon an emergent corpus of Anglophone literature by resident and diasporic writers – novels, autobiographies and narrative journalism – that concerns with an ethical imperative of storytelling in the aftermath of war. A major contribution of this research thus lies with its move towards translating the transitional justice paradigm – one of the most pressing issues in Sri Lanka at present – from the political to the cultural domain. As such, the project conceives this body of writing as ‘narratives of conciliation’ wherein attempts at mutual agreement, often touted as prerequisites for sustained reconciliation, may be rehearsed in the muted but pervasive undertones of narrative interventions. If one considers the country’s complex legacy of colonisation by three empires and the ensuing ethnic conflict, a return to a status quo ante, the project suggests, is inadequate, if not unattainable. Instead, it locates the literary category of ‘conciliation’ in the works of select Sri Lankan theorists on religious nationalism, authenticity, and secular criticism, in conjunction with the postcolonial theorist Edward Said’s thesis on contrapuntality.

该项目探讨了自2009年5月军队与泰米尔伊拉姆猛虎解放组织（猛虎组织）叛乱分子之间长达三十年的内战结束以来，战后斯里兰卡和解的文化政治。该项目抓住了一个新兴的语料库的英语文学的居民和散居作家-小说，自传和叙事新闻-这涉及到一个道德的必要性，讲故事的战后。因此，这项研究的一个主要贡献在于它朝着将过渡时期司法范式-斯里兰卡目前最紧迫的问题之一-从政治领域转化为文化领域的方向迈进。因此，该项目将这一写作主体视为“和解的叙述”，其中相互协议的尝试，往往被吹捧为持续和解的先决条件，可以在叙述干预的无声但普遍的基调中排练。如果考虑到这个国家被三个帝国殖民的复杂遗产和随之而来的种族冲突，该项目表明，恢复原状是不够的，如果不是无法实现的话。相反，它位于文学类的“和解”在斯里兰卡理论家的作品选择宗教民族主义，真实性和世俗批评，结合后殖民理论家爱德华·赛义德的论文对位。