Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The factory is like the paddy field : Gam Udawa performances, neoliberalism, and Sinhala Buddhist nationalism
  • In the shadows of neoliberalism : the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the many lives of Shobasakthi in Gorilla and Dheepan
  • How bodies matter : working-class women's theater in a time of war
  • Bearing witness : human rights, and the politics of solidarity in Anil's ghost and The Trojan women
  • Conclusion. Cartographies of loss : postwar neoliberalism, international tourism, and the vital art of Romesh Gunesekera and Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan.