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(Musician) M.I.A Civil War (Sri Lanka : 1983-2009) Family Sri Lanka Fiction Réfugiés Sri-Lanka Bandes dessinées Réfugiés Sri-Lanka Biographies Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Ethnic conflict Fiction Sri Lanka Histoire 1983-2009 (Guerre civile) Bandes dessinées Sri Lanka History Civil War, 1983-2009 Comic books, strips, etc Sri Lanka History Civil War, 1983-2009 FictionSummary: "Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge's Sundance award winning MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka's armed Tamil resistance, she hid from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MATMasilamani, Mike
Summary: "A darkly satiric account of childhood in times of war, violence and refugee camps. Set in Sri Lanka, the scenes that unfolds in this powerful vignette of children caught in the crossfire of civil war could equally happen elsewhere-- in all places where human deaths are reduced to numbers and guns do not differentiate between adults and children"--Page 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tara Books Private Limited 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASDix, Benjamin
Summary: "In the tradition of Maus, Palestine, and Persepolis, Vanni is a graphic novel documenting the human side of the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the “Tamil Tigers.” Told from the perspective of a single family, it takes readers through the horrors and life-changing decisions individuals are forced to make when caught up in someone else’s war. Set in the northern region of Sri...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pennsylvania State University Press 2023
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 954.9303 DIXLuloff, Joanna
Summary: To those living in the south of Sri Lanka, the civil war between the Sinhalese and the Tamils in the northern sector seems unreal, until north and south lives intersect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2012