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Soap Operas, Gender and the Sri Lankan Diaspora

A Transnational Ethnography in Australia and Sri Lanka

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Authors:
  1. Shashini Gamage

    1. Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia

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  • Provides a transnational ethnography that extends previous ethnographic research on media audiences into new epistemological terrains
  • Traverses two social and cultural topographies, bringing a unique context of diversity to the predominantly Euro-American settings of media audience studies
  • A valuable tool for industry-based media researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and higher degree research

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Shashini Gamage
    Pages 1-46

  3. Producing Meanings in a Soap Opera: Making Appropriate Femininities

    • Shashini Gamage
    Pages 47-70

  4. Soap Operas, Women and the Nation

    • Shashini Gamage
    Pages 71-93

  5. Soap Operas and Long-Distance Audiences

    • Shashini Gamage
    Pages 95-121

  6. Gender, Media, Migration and Culture: An Intersectional Conclusion

    • Shashini Gamage
    Pages 123-133

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 135-140
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About this book

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 soap operas that predominantly cater to female audiences. How women interpret, resist, deconstruct, and reconstruct good-bad binaries of women’s 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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia

    Shashini Gamage

About the author

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 fi lmmaker, and has produced documentaries on women, peace, and security during the civil war in Sri Lanka. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Soap Operas, Gender and the Sri Lankan Diaspora

  • Book Subtitle: A Transnational Ethnography in Australia and Sri Lanka

  • Authors: Shashini Gamage

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70632-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70631-9Published: 30 July 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-70632-6Published: 29 July 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 140

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Media and Communication, Diaspora

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