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 mobility across borders.

"Words of poets . . . sounds, images draw lines of flight . . . opening new angles on diaspora studies as well as on the politics of borders and mobility." - Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna, Italy

"A remarkable work of scholarship . . . beautifully written; makes a highly original and ethical argument that deserves the widest dissemination." - Sankaran Krishna, University of Hawai?i at Manoa, USA

"With poetic prose and keen analysis, the book shows us that the refugee and migrant are not only mobile subjects; tracing their fraught passage also complicates, disorients and troubles the question of the subject itself . . . [T]he subject struggles for shore, then slips from view, only to remerge; each time constituted by and struggling with trajectories of power and knowledge that are both new and not." - Vasuki Nesiah, New York University, USA

Autorentext

Suvendrini Perera is Professor of Cultural Analysis at Curtin University, Australia. Her previous books include Reaches of Empire: The English Novel from Edgeworth to Dickens and Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats and Bodies. Her most recent publication is the coedited volume At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror (with Sherene Razack).

Klappentext
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.

Inhalt
Abbreviations
Series Editor's Foreword
In Lieu of...
Preface: The Location of the Aftermath
Introduction: Lethal Imaginaries of Nationalism: A Brief History in Checkpoints

1. Lines of Flight: Survival Media
2. Missing In Action: By All Media Necessary
3. White Shores of Longing: Castaway Stories and Nation Dramas
4. Accounting For Disposable Lives: Visibility, Atrocity and International Justice
5. Territory of Ashes: A Disjointed Unfolding
   Conclusion: 'From what has happened to what will come'
   Afterword
   Bibliography