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Three Tsunami Narratives

The ancient Tamil epic Silappatikaram describes the flourishing portal city of Puhar and Manimekalai tells the story of how it was engulfed by the sea. The Sri Lankan chronicles Thupavamsa and Mahavamsa speak of another tsunami that was to have swallowed the kingdom of Kelani Tissa. The brave prince...

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Hovedforfatter:	Ganapathy-Doré, Geetha
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Sprog:	Anglais
Udgivet:	Angles 2020
Fag:	trauma migration tsunami narrative survival solidarity childhood death Sri Lanka Deraniyagala Sonali Hawley Philippa Salgado Minoli récit survie solidarité enfance mort
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topic	trauma migration tsunami narrative survival solidarity childhood death Sri Lanka Deraniyagala Sonali Hawley Philippa Salgado Minoli migration tsunami récit trauma survie solidarité enfance mort Sri Lanka Deraniyagala Sonali Hawley Philippa Salgado Minoli
spellingShingle	trauma migration tsunami narrative survival solidarity childhood death Sri Lanka Deraniyagala Sonali Hawley Philippa Salgado Minoli migration tsunami récit trauma survie solidarité enfance mort Sri Lanka Deraniyagala Sonali Hawley Philippa Salgado Minoli Ganapathy-Doré, Geetha Three Tsunami Narratives
description	The ancient Tamil epic Silappatikaram describes the flourishing portal city of Puhar and Manimekalai tells the story of how it was engulfed by the sea. The Sri Lankan chronicles Thupavamsa and Mahavamsa speak of another tsunami that was to have swallowed the kingdom of Kelani Tissa. The brave princess Vihara Mahadevi appeased the anger of nature that was intended for her father who had ill-treated a Buddhist monk by sacrificing herself. Surprisingly she survived. Almost two thousand years later, a daughter of the Island survives the tsunami of 2004 while tragically losing her parents, her husband and two sons in Wave (2013) by Sonali Deraniyagala. Deraniyagala’s story about coping with loss and grief and surviving shuttles between two Islands – England and Sri Lanka. The love of Sri Lanka surfaces in the humanitarian approach of Dr. Philippa Hawley, a British physician who had performed her internship in Sri Lanka and published There’s No Sea in Salford in 2013. The doctor-narrator Penny tries to re-establish contact with Kiri de Souza who was working as a nurse in the hospital where she did her internship in Sri Lanka and had married a Tamil doctor and settled in England. A story of liberation from cancer and domestic violence ensues that is enlarged and translated into a story of solidarity with the vulnerable in Sri Lanka. Minoli Salgado’s A Little Dust in the Eyes (2014) evokes the close relationship between Renu and Savi, two cousins separated by civil war. During the trip to Sri Lanka from England undertaken to come to grips with her childhood, Savi is not able to retrieve anything but is helplessly swept away in the fatal swell of the sea. The aim of this paper is to first identify the type of narratives that insiders and outsiders choose to write when addressing the tsunami, then analyze what these tsunami narratives tell us about gender, family, ethnic, and race relations in times of personal, political and natural catastrophes. This paper finally explores how a pathway to peace is found across the geography of pain in these intimations of mortality.
author	Ganapathy-Doré, Geetha
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title	Three Tsunami Narratives
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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_1187 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.1187 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.1187 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/1187 2020-07-16T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9mzk https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Three Tsunami Narratives Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Ganapathy-Doré, Geetha trauma migration tsunami narrative survival solidarity childhood death Sri Lanka Deraniyagala Sonali Hawley Philippa Salgado Minoli migration tsunami récit trauma survie solidarité enfance mort Sri Lanka Deraniyagala Sonali Hawley Philippa Salgado Minoli The ancient Tamil epic Silappatikaram describes the flourishing portal city of Puhar and Manimekalai tells the story of how it was engulfed by the sea. The Sri Lankan chronicles Thupavamsa and Mahavamsa speak of another tsunami that was to have swallowed the kingdom of Kelani Tissa. The brave princess Vihara Mahadevi appeased the anger of nature that was intended for her father who had ill-treated a Buddhist monk by sacrificing herself. Surprisingly she survived. Almost two thousand years later, a daughter of the Island survives the tsunami of 2004 while tragically losing her parents, her husband and two sons in Wave (2013) by Sonali Deraniyagala. Deraniyagala’s story about coping with loss and grief and surviving shuttles between two Islands – England and Sri Lanka. The love of Sri Lanka surfaces in the humanitarian approach of Dr. Philippa Hawley, a British physician who had performed her internship in Sri Lanka and published There’s No Sea in Salford in 2013. The doctor-narrator Penny tries to re-establish contact with Kiri de Souza who was working as a nurse in the hospital where she did her internship in Sri Lanka and had married a Tamil doctor and settled in England. A story of liberation from cancer and domestic violence ensues that is enlarged and translated into a story of solidarity with the vulnerable in Sri Lanka. Minoli Salgado’s A Little Dust in the Eyes (2014) evokes the close relationship between Renu and Savi, two cousins separated by civil war. During the trip to Sri Lanka from England undertaken to come to grips with her childhood, Savi is not able to retrieve anything but is helplessly swept away in the fatal swell of the sea. The aim of this paper is to first identify the type of narratives that insiders and outsiders choose to write when addressing the tsunami, then analyze what these tsunami narratives tell us about gender, family, ethnic, and race relations in times of personal, political and natural catastrophes. This paper finally explores how a pathway to peace is found across the geography of pain in these intimations of mortality. L'ancienne épopée tamoule Silappatikaram évoque la ville portuaire prospère de Puhar et Manimekalai mentionne la vague mortelle qui l'avait engloutie. Les chroniques sri lankaises Thupavamsa et Mahavamsa parlent d'une autre vague qui devait avaler le royaume de Kelani Tissa. La brave princesse Vihara Mahadevi apaisât la colère de la nature destinée à son père qui avait maltraité un moine bouddhiste en se sacrifiant. Étonnamment, elle a survécu. Près de deux mille ans plus tard, une fille de l'île survit au tsunami de 2004 alors qu'elle perdait tragiquement ses parents, son mari et ses deux fils dans Wave (2013), un récit de Sonali Deraniyagala, où l’auteur raconte comment elle tente de faire face à la perte, au deuil et au vent-et-vient entre deux îles - Angleterre et Sri Lanka – et de survivre. L'amour du Sri Lanka transparaît dans l'approche humanitaire du Dr Philippa Hawley, un médecin qui a effectué son stage au Sri Lanka, dans son roman There’s No Sea in Salford (2013). La médecin-narratrice Penny essaie de rétablir le contact avec Kiri de Souza qui travaillait comme infirmière à l'hôpital où elle avait fait son stage, qui a ensuite épousé un médecin tamoul et s'est installée en Angleterre. Une histoire de libération du cancer et de la violence domestique s'ensuit et se traduit par un récit de solidarité avec les personnes vulnérables au Sri Lanka. A Little Dust in the Eyes de Minoli Salgado (2014) évoque la relation étroite entre Renu et Savi, deux cousines séparées par la guerre civile. Au cours de ce voyage au Sri Lanka entrepris en vue de se réconcilier avec son enfance, Savi n'est pas en mesure de récupérer quoi que ce soit et est balayée dans la houle mortifère de la mer. L'objectif de cette étude est d'abord d'identifier le type de récit que choisissent les auteures pour écrire le tsunami (avec un point de vue interne ou externe), puis d'analyser ce que ces récits du tsunami nous enseignent sur le genre, la famille, le groupe ethnique et les relations raciales en période de catastrophes personnelles, politiques et naturelles, et enfin de voir comment un chemin vers la paix se dessine à travers la géographie de la douleur dans ces intimations de la mortalité.

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