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'Any study of the nation is a study of history and a study of historiography, and Rambukwella does that, but does more, for he welds together critical cultural studies analytic of texts, drawing upon novels, stories, popular culture. 'An important scholarly contribution to the many ways in which the nation can be narrated.' Authenticity is not a disinterested discursive trope it shapes people’s careers, and also helps shape history as an agential force' 'The strength of lies squarely in the rereading of history through the lens of authenticity and the self-fashioning process of protagonists. Simultaneously, the book is also a reference point and guide to local and global scholarship that have attempted to read various aspects of nationalism.’ 'An excellent synopsis of society’s socio-political and economic evolution to readers interested in understanding colonial and post-colonial Sri Lanka in the 19th and 20th centuries. Praise for The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity It also explores how notions of authenticity shape certain strands of postcolonial criticism and offers a way of questioning the taken-for-granted nature of the nation as a unit of analysis but at the same time critically explore the deep imprint of nations and nationalisms on people's lives.

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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