Rebecca Devika Dharmapalan: My Pen Is Sharp like the Gun in My Hand

ISBN 978-1-953189-19-6April 2025, English, 5 x 7 inches, 126 pages, softcover, spiral-boundEdition of 300 In My Pen Is Sharp like the Gun in My Hand: On the Revolutionary Feminism of the Tamil Tigers, Rebecca Devika Dharmapalan challenges the legal frameworks that form an otherwise narrow understanding of the women who participated in the armed resistance movement Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE or Tamil Tigers) during the civil war in Sri Lanka from 1983–2009. As an archival project, My Pen Is Sharp like the Gun in My Hand centers the voices and lives of women of the LTTE as they respond to genocide, and considers their creative output in relationship to their armed resistance. In addition to Dharmapalan's feminist analysis of the movement, the book includes historic photographs by Roger Parton, poetry by LTTE women originally compiled and translated by Dr. N. Malathy, as well as a recent interview between the author and K., a member of LTTE.  Rebecca Devika Dharmapalan is an i