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

• Autore: Pieris Anoma
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 720.1/03095493
• Soggetto topico: Nationalism and architecture - Sri Lanka; Identity (Psychology) in architecture - Sri Lanka; Postcolonialism - Sri Lanka
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Architecture and nationalism in Sri Lanka
• ISBN: 1-135-11563-X; 0-203-07483-1; 1-283-89458-0; 1-135-11564-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779451203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series