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Writing Violence and Buddhism in Sri Lanka: Of Hungry Ghosts and Homecomings

Writing Violence and Buddhism in Sri Lanka: Of Hungry Ghosts and Homecomings

Menike, Nimmi N.

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ISBN10: 1032233133
ISBN13: 9781032233130
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Jan 29 2024
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book examines the idea of violence in the context of religion and literature. It addresses the question of freedom and peace, and violence, with reference to the Buddhist nationalist discourse in Sri Lanka, against the backdrop of Shyam Selvadurai's novel, The Hungry Ghosts. The book discusses love, compassion, emancipation, ethics and responsibility through the concepts of identity, deconstruction and decolonization to view religion as language or writing. With a blend of philosophical insights from Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, and Mahatma Gandhi on ideas of being and the other, differences, nonviolence and forgiveness, it insists on the ethical exigency of reinventing Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Delving into some the central motifs of Selvadurai's novel, suffering, desire, hate, and vengeance, it questions popular Sinhala Buddhist readings to argue for the promise of inclusive and diverse approaches towards various groups, linguistic communities, women, and homosexuality.

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