This is a book about place-making and imagining.
An edition of The Lost Land of Lemuria
(2004)
The lost land of Lemuria
fabulous geographies, catastrophic histories
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 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 an 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories
2004, University of California Press
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Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories
2004, University of California Press
in English
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The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories
December 17, 2004, University of California Press
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The lost land of Lemuria: fabulous geographies, catastrophic histories
Sep 27, 2004, University of California Press
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The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories
September 27, 2004, University of California Press
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in English
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