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Chapter 5 discusses the acts of mass rape-torture that followed the LTTE’s defeat. It attempts to situate the multivalent figure of the LTTE female cadre, most often imagined as a suicide bomber, within discursive economies of gender, nationalism and terror.
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Perera, S. (2016). Territory of Ashes: A Disjointed Unfolding. In: Survival Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka. Mobility & Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-44464-6_6
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