The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Lost Land of Lemuria "This path-breaking book makes novel and riveting connections between scientists and occultists in the West and Tamil nationalists in India. Ramaswamy's history of the fabulous and lost continent of Lemuria is a brilliant demonstration of how imagination travels."--Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of "Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference" "Sumathi Ramaswamy's important
Full description- Publisher: University of California Press
- Published: 31 January 2005
- Format: Paperback 384 pages
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- Categories: Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge | Folklore, Myths & Legends | Asian History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Mind, Body & Spirit | Unexplained Phenomena / The Paranormal | Religion: General
- ISBN 13: 9780520244405 ISBN 10: 0520244400
- Sales rank: 935,009
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Full description for The Lost Land of Lemuria
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.
