A Talk by Nimanthi Rajasingham
Dr. Nimanthi Rajasingham delivered a talk titled ‘How Bodies Matter: Working-Class Women’s Theatre from Sri Lanka’s Free Trade Zones’ at the Department of English on 15th November 2018 at 4pm.
Arguing that the contemporary working-class women’s theatres from within the Export Processing Zones in Sri Lanka are rich sites for documenting the development and nature of working-class, feminist and ethnic consciousness’, Dr. Rajasingham analysed the ‘development dramas’ (theatre that contests dominant forms of development) of the workers, their performative acts on a factory floor, and visual materials in exploring how bodies are produced and made to matter.
Dr. Nimanthi Rajasingham is Assistant Professor of English at the Department of English, Colgate University, New York. She is the author of the forthcoming title, Assembling Ethnicities in Neoliberal Times: Ethnographic Fictions and Sri Lanka’s War (2019) published by the Northwestern University Press as part of the series, Critical Insurgencies.
