@article{1438608,
      author = {Gamage, Shashini,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1438608},
      title = {Soap operas, gender and the Sri Lankan diaspora : a  transnational ethnography in Australia and Sri Lanka /},
      abstract = {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.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70632-6},
      recid = {1438608},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
}