M. Neelika Jayawardane
“This is not the correct history”: Lacunae, Contested Narratives, and Evidentiary Images from Sri Lanka’s Civil War
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About “This is not the correct history”: Lacunae, Contested Narratives, and Evidentiary Images from Sri Lanka’s Civil War
In ‘This is not the correct history’: Lacunae, Contested Narratives, and Evidentiary Images from Sri Lanka's Civil War, the scholar M. Neelika Jayawardane questions the evidentiary nature of documentary photography foregrounding the slippery ethics of reading images of the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka.
About M. Neelika Jayawardane
M. Neelika Jayawardane is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York- Oswego and a Research Associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD), University of Johannesburg. Her writing and research is centered on South Africa and her scholarly publications focus on the nexus between written texts, visual art, photography, and the transnational/transhistorical implications of colonialism, ongoing forms of discrimination, displacement, and migration on individuals and communities. She is a recipient of a 2018 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for a book project on Afrapix, a South African photographers’ agency that operated during the last decade of apartheid. Jayawardane was born in Sri Lanka, raised in Zambia, and completed her university education in the United States.
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