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Metallic Modern

Name: Metallic Modern
Brand: Berghahn Books
SKU: 02537878
Price: 143.89 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Nira Wickramasinghe
ISBN: 9781782382423

Nira Wickramasinghe

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 02537878

Publishers Berghahn Books, January 2014

Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of p... Full description

Libristo code: 02537878

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Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of foreign machines - in particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone, tramway, bicycle and varieties of industrial equipment. The 'metallic modern' of the 19th and early 20th century Ceylon encompassed multiple worlds of belonging and imagination; and enabled diverse conceptions of time to coexist through encounters with Siam, the United States and Japan as well as a new conception of urban space in Colombo. Metallic Modern describes the modern as it was lived and experienced by non-elite groups - tailors, seamstresses, shopkeepers, workers - and suggests that their idea of the modern was nurtured by a changing material world.