The Lost Land of Lemuria : Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories PDF
by Sumathi Ramaswamy
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During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is the first to explore Lemuria's incarnations across cultures, from Victorian-era science to Euro-American occultism to colonial and postcolonial India. The Lost Land of Lemuria widens into a provocative exploration of the poetics and politics of loss to consider how this sentiment manifests itself in a fascination with vanished homelands, hidden civilizations, and forgotten peoples. More than a consideration of nostalgia, it shows how ideas once entertained but later discarded in the metropole can travel to the periphery-and can be appropriated by those seeking to construct a meaningful world within the disenchantment of modernity. Sumathi Ramaswamy ultimately reveals how loss itself has become a condition of modernity, compelling us to rethink the politics of imagination and creativity in our day.
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- Pages:351 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:27/09/2004
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- ISBN:9780520931855
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:351 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:27/09/2004
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- ISBN:9780520931855
