| Description |
xvi, 259 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 65 |
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Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 65
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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 central to related architectural discourses due to its emergence as a critical site for regional architecture, post-independence. Suggesting patterns of indigenous accommodation and resistance that are expressed through built form, the book argues that the nation grows as an extension of an indigenous private sphere, ostensibly uncontaminated by colonial influences, domesticating institutions and appropriating rural geographies in the pursuit of its hegemonic ideals. This ambitious, comprehensive, wide-ranging book presents an abundance of new and original material and many imaginative insights into the history of architecture and nationalism from the mid nineteenth century to the present day."--Publisher's description |
| Notes |
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-246) and index |
| Subject |
Identity (Psychology) in architecture -- Sri Lanka.
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Nationalism and architecture -- Sri Lanka.
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Postcolonialism -- Sri Lanka.
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| LC no. |
2012025958 |
| ISBN |
9780415630023 (hbk.) |
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