![]() ![]() 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 book demonstrates authenticity’s rich and varied presence in Sri Lankan public life and its key role in understanding postcolonial nationalism in Sri Lanka and elsewhere in South Asia and the world. It argues that the passion for the ‘real’ or the ‘authentic’ has played a significant role in shaping nationalist thinking and argues for an empathetic yet critical engagement with the idea of authenticity. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity places authenticity at the heart of Sinhala nationalism in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Sri Lanka. 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. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (PIA). ![]() The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society.Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England.International Journal of Social Pedagogy.International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning.Grammars of World and Minority Languages.Global Prosperity in Thought and Practice.Embodying Inequalities: Perspectives from Medical Anthropology. ![]()
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