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ANIL’S GHOST

ANIL’S GHOST. A Brother ~ Ananda. Central Issues. Anil’s Fragmentary Identity Past experience in Sri Lanka Anil’s Relations with Sarath, Cullis, Gamini and Ananda. Trauma and War The role of Sri Lankan “doctors” (Gamini [118-19. 134-35]and Linus Corea) Ananda

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ANIL’S GHOST

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  1. ANIL’S GHOST A Brother ~ Ananda

  2. Central Issues • Anil’s Fragmentary Identity • Past experience in Sri Lanka • Anil’s Relations with Sarath, Cullis, Gamini and Ananda. • Trauma and War • The role of Sri Lankan “doctors” (Gamini [118-19. 134-35]and Linus Corea) • Ananda • Reconstructions (1) The roles of Truth • in Archaeology • in politics and a city (e.g. 156) • Reconstructions (2) • Ananda’s reconstruction of Sailor

  3. Anil’s Fragmentary Identity Past experience in Sri Lanka • refused to add “e” to her name  family wars (136-37) Anil’s Relations with Sarath, Cullis, Gamini and Ananda • “bad” marriages – “malefic” woman: a sister-in-law of the bad horoscope. • Anil’s – [order vs. the anarchy in love] with a Sri Lanka medical student who is possessive. (141 - )  Anil no longer speaks Sinhala • in Borrego Springs – emptiness, interest in her work (a new tusk) and the final moment with Cullis (150-151)

  4. Traumas in the War • Human beings– always in fear, need of order, functional • Gamini [118-19. 134-35]  38; about his brother 192-93 • Amygala – fear in the brain 134 • Linus Corea – lack of a need (123-25)

  5. Traumas in the War • More killings – e.g. Gunasena's injury, the blindfolded man on a bike (154) • Sarath remembers rock drawings discovered in the times of worst violence. (156) • Sirissa, a teacher, finds her students beheaded. (172-75; 184)  Ananda’s suicide

  6. The roles of Truth –geological • soil as a novel 190 • A monastery 190 • a walawwa (prestige place) p. 202

  7. The roles of Truth -- in politics and a city • Relational and dangerous (e.g. 132,156) • Sarath would only say once she turned off her tape recorder. (135) --

  8. Ananda’s Reconstruction • builds up the skull with clay, and breaks it up at the end of each day. (167) • Sadness in his face (171) • Reconstructed– the calm Ananda needs, not Sailor

  9. Anil’s Responses • need of connection and actions pp. 180-181

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