The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity : A Cultural Genealogy of Sinhala Nationalism
What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed mythology used for political manipulation. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity places authe...
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Main Author: | Rambukwella, Harshana (auth) |
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UCL Press
2018
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