Soap Operas, Gender and the Sri Lankan Diaspora: A Transnational Ethnography in Australia and Sri Lanka

by Shashini Gamage

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030706311
• ISBN13: 9783030706319
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"