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I explore the immigrant Muslim woman and the notion of hearing her through her hijab (or headscarf) through the women in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire and Sophocles's Oedipus at Colonus. Next, I move to the minority Muslim body in Sri Lanka, extracting from the wartime play Therum Therukathaiyum (\"Street Tales and the Sacred Chariot\"), the trope of the Muslim body in varying forms of alive and dead, to delve into the idea of these bodies being in the way of the state. From there, I shift to the veil ban in Sri Lanka following the 2019 Easter bombings, by viewing the ban through the lens of Home Fire and Antigone, to examine it as \"not hearing,\" expulsion, and a lack of integration leaving the Muslim woman in migrant space. The final section returns to Home Fire and the Theban Plays, to examine the Sri Lankan state burdened by the question of burying the Muslim in the aftershocks of the 2019 Easter tragedy and the recent COVID-19 pandemic, interpreting the rejection of burial as a withdrawal of citizenship rights. The blighted Muslim body, the contaminator of the land, is an impediment to the state and its citizens, alive or dead, moving or motionless, bringing it to a crossroads.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. Please include the item's persistent URL [http://hdl.handle.net/. . .] in your request.**"]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Veils, Plagues, and Burials: The Blighted Sri Lankan Muslim Body"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Holstun, James","English"],"dc:creator":["Hamead, Tasneem"],"dc:date":["2025-02-21T21:44:52Z","2020"],"dc:description":["M.A.","This is an attempt to understand the conflicting identity of being Muslim and of being a Muslim woman. This minority Muslim other identity is seen to be directly opposed to the Sri Lankan state. This thesis is an effort to record recent Muslim experience in Sri Lanka, and to give it voice. The mainstream discourse on the Sri Lankan civil war, is often perceived to have been between the Sinhalese and the Tamils. The Muslim's existence during and after the war, and her travails, are generally glossed over. 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