Author Gamage, Shashini Additional authorUnknown Publisher Springer International Publishing (Cham, Switzerland , 2021) Language(eng) English ISBN9783030706326 SeriesUnknown Edition1st ed. SubjectSRI LANKAN DIASPORA; NoteUnknown AbstractThis book is a transnational ethnographic study of Sri Lankan women’s television soap opera cultures in Australia and Sri Lanka. Both Sri Lankan migrant women’s soap opera clubs in Melbourne, Australia, and female friendship groups watching soap operas in Colombo, Sri Lanka, are examined. Conducted in the sociopolitical backdrop of post-civil war Sri Lanka, this study examines how nationalist ideologies of womanhood shape meanings in Sri Lankan television soap operas that predominantly cater to female audiences. How women interpret, resist, deconstruct, and reconstruct good-bad binaries of women’s bodies, freedoms, and rights as represented in the soap operas are mapped, providing an ethnographic examination of how nationalist meanings translate into cultural capital in spaces of television production and reception, in national and diasporic everyday lives.

Number of pages1 online resource (xiii, 140 p.) DimensionUnknown Other descriptionill.