Unmaking the Nation: The Politics of Identity and History in Modern Sri Lanka

Professor Pradeep Jeganathan

ISBN 10: 0974883972 / ISBN 13: 9780974883977

Editore: South Focus Press, 2009

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• Titolo: Unmaking the Nation: The Politics of Identity and History in Modern Sri Lanka
• Editore: South Focus Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0974883972
• ISBN 13: 9780974883977
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Edizione: seconda edizione
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 373 grammi

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Riassunto

This now classic work provides challenging new ways of thinking about nationalism, colonialism and modernity, in Sri Lanka. Situated at the conceptual intersection of history and identity, the essays in the volume denaturalizes the claims of the nation, taking it apart analytically, pointing to hidden relations of power and inequality that undergird it. "Stimulating... Excellent..." -- Journal of Asian Studies. "...will be of great value to all those concerned with... nationalism, violence and adversarial historiography."--- Arjun Appadurai "....forces us to think about Sri Lankan symbolic and social formations in an entirely novel fashion." --Gananath Obeyesekere

Informazioni sull?autore

Pradeep Jeganathan is a Senior Consultant Social Anthropologist at the Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies, Colombo. He is co-edior with Partha Chatterjee of Subaltern Studies X1 (2001) and author of At the Water's Edge (2004) and Living with Death (2007).