History Bearing, History Suffering and History Creating— Putting
Journal Title: BEST : International Journal of Humanities , Arts, Medicine and Sciences ( BEST : IJHAMS ) - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 11
Abstract
Wijenaike vividly captures the plight of Sri Lankans after the tortured memory of the civil war in Sri Lanka during 1980-2009. An Enemy Within (1998) resembles a gory catalogue of the harrowing experiences of some of the victims of the Central Bank bomb blast of January 1996 that extensively damaged the city and its environment which constitute the heart of the commercial centre of the nation’s capital, Colombo. The author tells us that the experiences recorded are factual, though she has taken the liberty in rendering them in fictional terms. The paper, in particular, seeks to explore three main stages involved during the traumatic situation i.e., 1) Pre-war, 2) War and 3) Post-war. Raghavendra Rao succinctly sums up the lengthy thought as, “history bearing, history suffering and history creating” (159). Nietzsche’s “On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life” creates a typology of three modes of historical consciousness of the country in particular, which fits Wijenaike’s portrayal of disassociation and transmutation as well.
Authors and Affiliations
Prailene Palsia
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP248265
- DOI -
- Views 130
- Downloads 0
Clostridium Difficile Infection and IBD Patients in One Clinical Center
In this article, a retrospective analysis of the incidence of Clostridium difficile CDI infection was performed among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn disease (CD). Factors...
Improved Extraction of Kokum Fruit Pulp by Optimizing Process Parameters using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) Tool
To obtain a suitable smooth kokum pulp depending on water temperature and soaking time, response surface methodology (RSM) optimal is used. Garcinia indica has many benefits and it’s grown all over India. In the present...
The Female Bildungsroman: Conceptualizing Womanhood in 7 Nuruddin Farah’s from a Crooked Rib and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
The paper focuses on the depiction of the growth into womanhood in the coming-of-age narrative genre as a gender-specific experience that not only reconstructs identity of the protagonist but also reformulates the genre...
Of Doppler Effect, a Third Beam or Cave of Ali Baba Einstein's Principle of Relativity Contradicts Doppler Effect
In Doppler Effect, we deals with the normal light where the front beam retracts, the rear dilates and the vertical inclines, contrary to the light Einstein used in his principle of relativity. Hence the light in the firs...
Child Homicide in Bangladesh: A Statistical Profile
In Bangladesh, on average one child every day is a victim of the homicide. It is evident that the provenance of child homicide has upraising trend and children are at increased risk for crime victimization. The purpose o...