• Mary Josephine Jerina
• K. Kalyani
• R. Balasarasvathi

Jean Arasanayagam is a major creative voice in Sri Lankan writing in English. Through her writings she renders voice to the thousands of oppressed people around the Island of Sri Lanka. Her poem transports the reader to the civil war, where thousands lost their life. She records each and every incident as she too has been a victim through the long years of ethnic war. Being a painter as well as a poet, she gives a vivid picture of the disaster and the suffering of the multitude with the eyes of the painter and poet. In this paper titled Chiaroscuro of Conflict, Disaster, Suffering and Ethnic Fratricide: A Study of Jean Arasanayagam’s Poetry, the researcher has probed into the poems that portray the disaster from the Collection Apocalypse’83. The poems serve as a witness and a catharsis of pity and hope in coming out of that traumatic experience. For Jean it was both regeneration and a rerouting of her life and events, she never fails to depict the atrocious act of the hegemony.

conflict, disaster, ethnic fratricide, oppressed, suffering.

"Chiaroscuro of Conflict, Disaster, Suffering and Ethnic Fratricide: A Study of Jean Arasanayagam’s Poetry", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.145-149, May 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCY06023.pdf

"Chiaroscuro of Conflict, Disaster, Suffering and Ethnic Fratricide: A Study of Jean Arasanayagam’s Poetry", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp145-149, May 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCY06023.pdf