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Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-160) and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Authentic problems; Introduction; Theorising authenticity and nationalism; Nation and nationalism -- primordial versus modernist explanations; The postcolonial critique of nationalism; Theorising nationalism in Sri Lanka; Authenticity inside and outside the nation; Structure and organisation of the book; 2 The protean life of authenticity: : history, nation, Buddhism and identity; Introduction; Sri Lanka -- colonial and postcolonial identity-making; Identity formation: Portuguese and Dutch genealogies |
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Dutch rule: rudimentary social classification and administrationBritish rule and 'colonial modernity'; The census and political institutionalisation of identities; History, the past and authenticity; Monumentalising the past: colonial archaeology; Buddhism and Sinhala identity; Post-independence: the rise of Sinhala nationalism; The making of a bipolar Tamil-Sinhala nationalist discourse; Conclusion; 3 Anagarika Dharmapala: : the nation and its place in the world; Introduction; Contextualising Dharmapala's life and career; Dharmapala's vision of the Sinhala past; Buddhism and Sinhala identity |
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Dharmapala and othersFraming Dharmapala: Dharmapala as national hero; Conclusion; 4 S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike: : the paradox of authenticity; Introduction; Bandaranaike's life and political career; Oxford memoirs of Bandaranaike -- conquering the metropolis and nationalist awakenings; Gandhi, the village and authenticity; Buddhism, rationalism and national identity; The Sinhala-only debate: Bandaranaike as the advocate of Sinhala interests; Conclusion; 5 Gunadasa Amarasekara: : the life and death of authentic things; Introduction |
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Amarasekara's early career and the politics of Sinhala cultural nationalismThe nationalist turn in Amarasekara, Martin Wickramasinghe and the village; Tradition, Buddhism and Marxism: Anagarika Dharmapala Maaksvaadeeda?; The idea of a Sinhala Buddhist subaltern movement; The idea of a Buddhist state and Sri Lanka's precolonial history; Reconciling Buddhism with Marxism; Inimage Ihalata: a fictional exploration of modern Sinhala Buddhist identity; The village as the site of a traditional Sinhala Buddhist ethos; The university and Colombo: academic discourse, urban life and Sinhala identity |
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Stone statues, hollow statues and the life and death of authentic thingsFrom father to son: retrieving and reanimating the authentic; Conclusion; 6 Conclusion: : the postcolonial afterlife of authenticity; Introduction; Authenticity's developmentalist and political death; Three moments in the developmental articulation of the village; D.S. Senanayake and the Gal Oya Irrigation Scheme; J.R. Jayawardene and the Accelerated Mahaweli Development Programme; Ranasinghe Premadasa and Gam Udawa; Popular culture and Sinhala authenticity |
| Summary |
Through a series of fine-grained and historically grounded analyses of the writings of individual figures central to the making of Sinhala nationalist ideology The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity demonstrates authenticity's rich and varied presence in Sri Lankan public life and its key role in understanding post-colonial nationalism. |
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English. |
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Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) -- Ethnic identity.
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Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) -- Politics and government.
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Cingalais (Peuple du Sri Lanka) -- Identité ethnique.
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Literature & literary studies.
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History.
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Regional & national history.
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Asian history.
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Nationalism.
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Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) -- Politics and government
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| Indexed Term |
Authenticity |
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Decolonisation |
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Nationalism |
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Sinhala |
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Buddhism |
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Dharmapala |
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Sri Lanka |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Rambukwella, Harshana. Politics and poetics of authenticity. London : UCL Press, 2018 1787351300 (OCoLC)1045175136 |
| ISBN |
9781787351288 (electronic bk.) |
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1787351289 (electronic bk.) |
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1787351300 |
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9781787351301 |
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9781787351295 (paperback) |
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1787351297 |
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9781787351318 (epub) |
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1787351319 |
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9781787351325 (mobi) |
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1787351327 |
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9781787351332 (HTML) |
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1787351335 |
| Standard No. |
10.14324/111.9781787351288 doi |
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AU@ 000066306290 |
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AU@ 000063637967 |
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AU@ 000072297796 |
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UKMGB 019614857 |
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