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The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories

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Availability:In StockContributor:Sumathi RamaswamyPublish date:2004-09-27Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520244405ISBN-10:520244400UPC:9780520244405Book Category:Body, Mind & Spirit, ReligionBook Subcategory:Unexplained Phenomena, Ancient Mysteries & Controversial KnowledgeSize:8.84 x 6.20 x 0.85 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SCANSSEFT3
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520244405ISBN-10:520244400UPC:9780520244405Book Category:Body, Mind & Spirit, ReligionBook Subcategory:Unexplained Phenomena, Ancient Mysteries & Controversial KnowledgeSize:8.84 x 6.20 x 0.85 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SCANSSEFT3
Sumathi Ramaswamy is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, editor of Beyond Appearances: Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India (2003), and author of Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 (California, 1997).
Publisher: University of California Press

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