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Surging Sea and Other Stories

Perera, Menerapitiya Vidanalage Sammani Kaushalya
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1470353751

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2016, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
An island-nation in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka, was among the fourteen countries devastated by the 2004 Asian Tsunami. On 26 December, Sri Lankans were still celebrating Christmas, observing sil for it was also a full moon poya day, and preparing for the new year when the Indian Ocean flooded the coastline of the island killing 35,399 and victimizing 1,019,306 people. Within minutes following the first tidal wave, tsunami, a word and a phenomenon hitherto unknown to a majority of Sri Lankans, became a hot button topic on the media. Television channels broadcast video footage of the tsunami, many of them recorded by victims with their mobile phones. One such video captured a group of young girls who were struggling to cling to concrete poles of the bus station in Galle, but were soon swept away by the rapid currents. The video went viral and came to connote the tragedy the 2004 Asian Tsunami caused; ten years later, it still haunts news as Sri Lankans commemorate the tsunami victims on 26 December every year. Against this backdrop, my collection of short stories titled Surging Sea and Other Stories revolves around the Sri Lankan experience of the 2004 Asian Tsunami.
Brian Roley (Committee Chair)
Daisy Hernandez (Committee Member)
Nalin Jayasena (Committee Member)
54 p.
Ethnic Studies; South Asian Studies
2004 Asian Tsunami; Sri Lanka

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  • Perera, M. V. S. K. (2016). Surging Sea and Other Stories [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1470353751

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Perera, Menerapitiya Vidanalage. Surging Sea and Other Stories. 2016. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1470353751.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Perera, Menerapitiya Vidanalage. "Surging Sea and Other Stories." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1470353751

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