Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka by Anoma Pieris - 9781138118645

Taylor & Francis

Architecture and Nationalism in Sri LankaThe Trouser Under the Cloth\nAuthor(s): Anoma Pieris\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138118645, 978-1138118645\nSynopsis\nThe 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. \n\nThis 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 accom.