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Author Trawick, Margaret

Title Enemy lines : childhood, warfare, and play in Batticaloa / Margaret Trawick
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 307 pages)
Series Philip E. Lilienthal Asian studies imprint
Contents Introduction -- The past -- March 1996 -- Vasanta and Rosa -- About Vithusa -- What Menan showed me -- Girls in the LTTE -- Boys in the LTTE -- Spectacles and mysteries -- Look for what you do not see
Summary Enemy Lines captures the extraordinary story of boys and girls coming of age during a civil war. Margaret Trawick lived and worked in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka, where thousands of youths have been recruited into the Sri Lankan armed resistance movement known as the Tamil Tigers. This compelling account of her experiences is a powerful exploration of how children respond to the presence of war and how adults have responded to the presence of children in this conflict. Her beautifully written account, which includes voices of the teenagers and young adults who have joined the Tamil
Notes "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P [ii]
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies"--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-297) and indexes
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Subject Tamiḻīḻa Viṭutalaippulikaḷ (Association)
SUBJECT Tamiḻīḻa Viṭutalaippulikaḷ (Association) fast
Subject Tamil (Indic people) -- Wars -- Sri Lanka -- Batticaloa District
Tamil (Indic people) -- Sri Lanka -- Batticaloa District -- Social conditions
Children -- Sri Lanka -- Batticaloa District -- Social conditions
Children and war -- Sri Lanka -- Batticaloa District
Children and violence -- Sri Lanka -- Batticaloa District
HISTORY.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Children and violence
Children and war
Children -- Social conditions
Social conditions
Tamil (Indic people) -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Batticaloa District (Sri Lanka) -- Social conditions
Subject Sri Lanka -- Batticaloa District
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696627
ISBN 9780520938878
0520938879
9781429471763
142947176X