Soap operas, gender and the Sri Lankan diaspora : a transnational ethnography in australia and sri lanka 1st ed.

Author

• Gamage, Shashini

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030706326

Series

Subject(s)

• SRI LANKANS -- AUSTRALIA -- MELBOURNE (VIC.) -- SOCIAL CONDITIONS
• SRI LANKAN DIASPORA

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Abstract

This 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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xiii, 140 p.)

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-

Other Desc.

ill.

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