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Music and Memorialization:Narrative of Return in SVPD’s Made in Jaffna (2021)
Full text linkAlthough BIPOC artists have been dominating global popular music charts in recent years, certain artists’ music centre on narratives shaped by socio-political turmoil. The Sri Lankan civil war (1983 – 2009) resulted in the ethnic cleansing of Tamil peoples as well as one of the largest refugee crises in the twentieth century. This ethnoreligious divide between the Sinhala Buddhist majority and the Tamil Hindu minority continues to this day through the erasure of Tamil heritage and identity in the state via the destruction of Tamil memorial sites in Tamil Eelam (North Sri Lanka). There is a burgeoning music scene in Canada from the diasporic Tamil Eelam community in which themes of displacement, dispossession and exile are at the forefront. These artists pay homage to their homeland while also forging a sense of communal belonging by performing their diasporic identity through their music. In this paper, I focus on Shan Vincent de Paul’s (SVPD) album Made in Jaffna (2021) to explore how home is re-created and reimagined through the soundscape. This music album acts as a site for the lost home to be housed and preserved; a heritage object to uncover how the remembered past affects the present. I argue that SVPD returns home through his music and that the album is an archive or domicile of home- making and un-making. I employ Marianne Hirsch’s ‘postmemory’ (1996) to illustrate intergenerational narratives of rupture. I demonstrate where memorial sites are threatened or erased, we can look for alternative routes of memorialization through sonic reconstructions of home
What’s Cooking? Mobilizing Women’s Life Narratives in Diasporic Cookbooks
No full textOver recent years there has been a proliferation of cookbooks by diasporic women authors containing a wealth of traditional family recipes. Today’s cookbooks focus on experiencing transnational traditions and transculturalism through women’s voices and intergenerational stories. This paper elucidates how cookbooks, as a form of life writing, materialise ‘mobile lives’ (Elliot and Urry, 2009) through a focus on women’s histories, narratives and activism. In shaping intergenerational women’s life storying, these cookbooks represent identity markers of the geopolitics of migration. I will examine two cookbooks that explore diasporic ancestries: Cynthia Shanmugalingam’s Rambutan: Recipes from Sri Lanka (2022) and Reem Assil’s Arrabiya: Recipes from the Life of an Arab in Diaspora (2022). The authors pay homage to their homeland through culinary expression. The cookbooks include heartfelt essays that convey the importance of documenting oral food histories in order to preserve their distinct gustatory cultures in an environment where the physical land is threatened or erased from national consciousness. The cookbook is an ideal site for mobilizing the oral to the textual while also stressing the intimacy and distinctness of these diasporic family accounts. Therefore, these cookbooks mediate the interconnected acts of diasporic writing, reading and cooking
Cooking the way to my heritage
Full text linkDuring this past year of lockdowns and self-isolation, the kitchen has become a focal space in many of our homes. While some have been baking up a storm or beginning their sourdough journeys (both of which I am guilty of), I have also been using food to reacquaint myself with my roots. This journey began when my partner gifted me Prakash K SivanathanSivanathan’s Niranjala M EllawalaEllawala’s Sri Lanka: The Cookbook (2017). The husband and wife co-authors are Sri Lankan Tamil and Sinhala, respectively. With over 100 recipes consisting of mains and desserts, the cookbook is a visual delight packed withstunning images of not only food but Sri LankaLanka’s people and landscape. The cookbook includes a detailed glossary of spices and herbs. I was pleasantly surprised by the wealth of vegan and vegetarian recipes which are reflective of a diet rich in grains, legumes, coconut and root vegetables. The authors are chefs by trade, but their recipes are reflective of hearty home cooking. Being a Malaysian Sri Lankan Tamil myself, I can attest to the authenticity of the Tamil recipes in Sri Lanka: The Cookbook some are staples found in my mummum’s and aunties ’ kitchens back home
COOKING THE WAY TO MY HERITAGE
Full text linkDuring this past year of lockdowns and self-isolation, the kitchen has become a focal space inmany of our homes. While some have been baking up a storm or beginning their sourdoughjourneys (both of which I am guilty of), I have also been using food to reacquaint myself withmy roots. This journey began when my partner gifted me Prakash K SivanathanSivanathan’s NiranjalaM EllawalaEllawala’s Sri Lanka: The Cookbook (2017).The husband and wife co-authors are Sri Lankan Tamil and Sinhala, respectively. Withover 100 recipes consisting of mains and desserts, the cookbook is a visual delight packed withstunning images of not only food but Sri LankaLanka’s people and landscape. The cookbook includesa detailed glossary of spices and herbs. I was pleasantly surprised by the wealth of vegan andvegetarian recipes which are reflective of a diet rich in grains, legumes, coconut and rootvegetables. The authors are chefs by trade, but their recipes are reflective of hearty homecooking. Being a Malaysian Sri Lankan Tamil myself, I can attest to the authenticity of theTamil recipes in Sri Lanka: The Cookbook some are staples found in my mummum’s and aunties ’kitchens back home
Cooking the way to my heritage
Full text linkDuring this past year of lockdowns and self-isolation, the kitchen has become a focal space in many of our homes. While some have been baking up a storm or beginning their sourdough journeys (both of which I am guilty of), I have also been using food to reacquaint myself with my roots. This journey began when my partner gifted me Prakash K SivanathanSivanathan’s Niranjala M EllawalaEllawala’s Sri Lanka: The Cookbook (2017). The husband and wife co-authors are Sri Lankan Tamil and Sinhala, respectively. With over 100 recipes consisting of mains and desserts, the cookbook is a visual delight packed withstunning images of not only food but Sri LankaLanka’s people and landscape. The cookbook includes a detailed glossary of spices and herbs. I was pleasantly surprised by the wealth of vegan and vegetarian recipes which are reflective of a diet rich in grains, legumes, coconut and root vegetables. The authors are chefs by trade, but their recipes are reflective of hearty home cooking. Being a Malaysian Sri Lankan Tamil myself, I can attest to the authenticity of the Tamil recipes in Sri Lanka: The Cookbook some are staples found in my mummum’s and aunties ’ kitchens back home
Re- writing the Other:Uncovering the Legacies of Slavery in Suad Amiry’s My Damascus
Full text linkSuad Amiry’s My Damascus (2016) is set in Damascus and spans a period from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. While it tells an illustrious story of her family history, it also involves the narratives of the enslaved people of African descent who maintain the household. In this chapter, I examine Amiry’s representation of two enslaved women in the ancestral home to reflect on contemporary issues of anti-blackness and racism in the Levant. I argue that these enslaved women are othered from a larger bourgeois Arab society, and are further othered by the racialized tone Amiry writes of them. Amiry’s dual layer of othering uncovers the place of slavery and race in contemporary Arab literary production and how people of African descent are marginalized and seen as subaltern in this region.</p
Locations of Home: Narratives of Return in Arab Anglophone Memoirs
No full textThis dissertation maps out how the trope of homecoming and the representation of ancestral houses are constructed by Arab Anglophone writers whose narratives are set in conflict zones. I investigate the desolation of family homes, as well as the influence of a family legacy of exile in shaping the diasporic return narrative. I examine these houses by focusing on how national crises and conflicts affect both families and their homes. The corpus assembled consists of a transcultural array of diasporic communities from the Middle East: Lebanon, Libya, Iraq and Syria and Palestine. I argue that the memoir serves as another location of home. This dissertation explores multiple geographies of home which are both physical and textual. The texts chart a series of relocations and crossings to highlight the homes made in the diaspora and the homes left behind in the homeland. Where the physical home has been left derelict or abandoned, restitution is configured through the act of writing. The memoir attempts to restore the dilapidated house but also explore the affective experience of homecoming. Therefore, I am interested in the critical role of memoir to study the subject of exile and return narratives. I deploy the term intergenerational to encompass memories, migrations and narratives. The writers depict the physical return to the abandoned homes, but they also imaginatively represent the home in its original condition with the help of ancestral memories
Re- writing the Other: Uncovering the Legacies of Slavery in Suad Amiry’s My Damascus
No full textSuad Amiry’s My Damascus (2016) is set in Damascus and spans a period from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. While it tells an illustrious story of her family history, it also involves the narratives of the enslaved people of African descent who maintain the household. In this chapter, I examine Amiry’s representation of two enslaved women in the ancestral home to reflect on contemporary issues of anti-blackness and racism in the Levant. I argue that these enslaved women are othered from a larger bourgeois Arab society, and are further othered by the racialized tone Amiry writes of them. Amiry’s dual layer of othering uncovers the place of slavery and race in contemporary Arab literary production and how people of African descent are marginalized and seen as subaltern in this region
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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