Survival Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka (Mobility & Politics)

Drawing on a variety of expressive forms and acts - the movements of refugee boats, the poetics of hip-hop, narratives of atrocity and survival - this book develops the concept of 'survival media' though the stories and mobilities of the thirty-year war in Sri Lanka. Moving between the hip-hop of M.I.A. and Human Rights reports, satellite maps and survivor testimonies, it shows how this war in a small country is also enmeshed with critical global issues such as the effects of the war on terror, the formations of diasporic identities and the hardening politics of borders. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction—Lethal Imaginaries of Nationalism: A Brief History in Checkpoints....Pages 1-18 Lines of Flight: Survival Media....Pages 19-32 Missing in Action: By All Media Necessary....Pages 33-53 White Shores of Longing: Castaway Stories and Nation Dramas....Pages 54-72 Accounting for Disposable Lives: Visibility, Atrocity and International Justice....Pages 73-92 Territory of Ashes: A Disjointed Unfolding....Pages 93-111 Conclusion—‘From What Has Happened to What Will Come’....Pages 112-115 Afterword....Pages 116-118 Back Matter....Pages 119-133 Through the narratives and movements of survivors of the war in Lanka these interconnected essays develop the concept of 'survival media' as embodied and expressive forms of mobilitiy across borders. Suvendrini Perera. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 119-130), Filmography (p. 130) And Index.