Nira wickramasinghe ideology for nationalism vs patriotism

Rajapaksa's patriotism merges nation and state, and it promotes a love of country based on a particular reading of the Sinhalese people's.

As I write, a similar conflict has arisen in Dambulla being contested was the entire Tamil nationalist historical nar- over alleged illegal Muslim and Hindu.

Landed in Sri Lanka, as if to bear witness to the Buddha's prediction.

If patriotism is to be shared by all, there must be an effort to ensure that across communities, cultural symbols, religious and ethnic—of the.

Nira Wickramasinghe is Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Landed in Sri Lanka, as if to bear witness to the Buddha's prediction.!

"New patriotism" in post-war Sri Lanka and the revival of the Walauva as a site of power in contemporary Sri Lankan English fiction

1059156 JCL0010.1177/00219894211059156The Journal of Commonwealth LiteraturePerera research-article2021 THE JOURNAL OF Article “New patriotism” in post-war Sri Lanka and the revival of the Walauva as a site of power in contemporary Sri Lankan English fiction C O M M O N W E A LT H L I T E R A T U R E The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 1–13 © The Author(s) 2021 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/00219894211059156 DOI: 10.1177/00219894211059156 journals.sagepub.com/home/jcl Vihanga Perera Australian National University, Australia Abstract An emerging body of fiction by contemporary English novelists in Sri Lanka during the immediate post-civil war decade (2010–2020) indicates a renewed interest in the feudal grand house (the walauva) as a site of power.

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