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The Lost Land of Lemuria : Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories by Ramaswamy, Sumathi is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Lost Land of Lemuria : Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories about?
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.
Who reads The Lost Land of Lemuria : Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ramaswamy, Sumathi
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781282357693
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, History, Computer Science