The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories

Cover Art for 9780520931855, The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories by Sumathi Ramaswamy
ISBN: 9780520931855
Publisher: Perseus - UCAL POD
Published: 1 September, 2004
Format: ePub
Editions:
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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

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