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The Lost Land of Lemuria Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories
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The Lost Land of Lemuria Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories Hardcover - 2004 - 1st Edition

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 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.

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This is a book about place-making and imagining.

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  • Title The Lost Land of Lemuria Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories
  • Author Sumathi Ramaswamy
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Date September 27, 2004
  • ISBN 9780520240322

About the author

Sumathi Ramaswamy is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, editor of Beyond Appearances: Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India (2003), and author of Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 (California, 1997).
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