Soap operas, gender and the Sri Lankan diaspora : a transnational ethnography in Australia and Sri Lanka / Shashini Gamage.
Gamage, Shashini, author.
2021
DU122.S85 G36 2021
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Title Soap operas, gender and the Sri Lankan diaspora : a transnational ethnography in Australia and Sri Lanka / Shashini Gamage.
Author Gamage, Shashini, author.
ISBN 9783030706326 (electronic book)
303070632X (electronic book)
9783030706319
3030706311
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70632-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource : color illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-70632-6 doi
Call Number DU122.S85 G36 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.48891413099451
Summary This book is a transnational ethnographic study of Sri Lankan womens television soap opera cultures in Australia and Sri Lanka. Both Sri Lankan migrant womens 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 womens 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. Shashini Gamage is Research Associate of the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, examining gender, media, and migration. She holds a PhD in Media and Communications from La Trobe University. She is a journalist and filmmaker, and has produced documentaries on women, peace, and security during the civil war in Sri Lanka.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 4, 2021).
Series Palgrave pivot.
Available in Other Form Soap operas, gender and the Sri Lankan diaspora.
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1: Introduction
Feminising Television
2: Producing meanings in soap opera
3: Soap operas, women and the nation
4: Soap operas and long distance audiences
5: Gender, media, migration and culture an intersectional conclusion.

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