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The Ethics of Care in the No Fire Zone: Anuk Arudpragasam's The Story of a Brief Marriage
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The ethics of care is a central element in the novel The Story of a Brief Marriage (2016), written by Anuk Arudpragasam in response to the slaughter which the Tamil community suffered in the final months of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009. This article discusses the novel from this theoretical perspective, positing that care is played out as a strategy to enhance the jeopardised human condition of those involved. The narrative bears witness to the intense suffering of this community at a time when the situation was deadly for civilians, who were confined in the so-called "No Fire Zone." Paradoxically, this area was systematically shelled, its conditions responding to what Achille Mbembe has described as necropolitics. In the midst of this horror, however, Arudpragasam's novel finds a deeply moving ethics of care in people's attitudes to one another, which signals a desperate attempt to keep the bereaved community together or at least maintain an essential sense of humanness. Care is also identified as intentio autoris since the novel becomes a powerful reminder of the huge toll of human lives and the immense pain that occurred in this dark episode, as well as the failure or lack of interest of the international community to intervene in order to save thousands of innocent lives.
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ALONSO BRETO, Isabel. The Ethics of Care in the No Fire Zone: Anuk Arudpragasam's The Story of a Brief Marriage. _Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies_. 2021. Vol. 43, núm. 1, pàgs. 72-88. [consulta: 31 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 0210-6124. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/186699]