Download eBook Free: https://ouo.io/2C6zfD9 The Lost Land of Lemuria Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories By: Sumathi Ramaswamy Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520244405, 0520244400 eText ISBN: 9780520931855, 0520931858 Edition: 1st Pages: 351 Copyright year: 2004 Format: PDF Available from $ 31.95 USD SKU 9780520931855 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. Additional ISBNs 9780520240322, 0520240324
