Architecture and nationalism in Sri Lanka : the trouser under the cloth / Anoma Pieris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pieris, Anoma, author.

Series:

Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism and architecture--Sri Lanka.

Nationalism and architecture.

Identity (Psychology) in architecture--Sri Lanka.

Identity (Psychology) in architecture.

Postcolonialism--Sri Lanka.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-11563-X

0-203-07483-1

1-283-89458-0

1-135-11564-8

9780203074831

OCLC:

823389790