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The Lost Land of Lemuria
- Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories
Engelsk Paperback
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- Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories
Engelsk Paperback

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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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
384
ISBN-13:
9780520244405
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520244400
Udg. Dato:
27 sep 2004
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
153mm
Højde:
226mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
27 sep 2004
Forfatter(e):
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