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Subject(s)

• Nationalism and architecture—Sri Lanka [Browse]
• Identity (Psychology) in architecture—Sri Lanka [Browse]
• Postcolonialism—Sri Lanka [Browse]

Series

• Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 65 [More in this series]
• Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series [More in this series]

Summary note

The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and cosmopolitanism. The home is fundamental to ideas of the homeland that give nationalism its imaginative form and its political trajectory. This book explores positions that are vital to ideas of national belonging through the history of colonial, bourgeois self-fashioning and post colonial identity construction in Sri Lanka. The country remains ce

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Language note

English

Contents

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Figure credits; Acknowledgements; 1 Domesticity and decolonization; 2 Country and city; 3 The trouser under the cloth; 4 Nationalist dreams; 5 The pioneers; 6 Metropolitan cultures; 7 Domesticating the nation; Appendix; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

ISBN

• 1-135-11563-X
• 0-203-07483-1
• 1-283-89458-0
• 1-135-11564-8

OCLC

• 823389790
• 823169898

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203074831

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