Poetry after Libricide and Genocide

Cheran Rudhramoorthy · *Indi@logs* Vol. 3, 2016, pp. 211–228 (ISSN 2339-8523, UAB Barcelona), DOI: 10.5565/rev/indialogs.49

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Peer-reviewed article by University of Windsor (Canada) Tamil poet-scholar Cheran Rudhramoorthy, treating the Jaffna library burning as the formative act of libricide in the Tamil experience. Cheran applies Knuth's framework alongside Lemkin's cultural-genocide theory to argue that the 1981 burning constituted a genocidal act targeting Tamil collective memory, and traces its impact on Tamil diasporic literary production. The only peer-reviewed article to focus specifically on the Jaffna case within the libricide-genocide nexus.

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