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The lost land of Lemuria : fabulous geographies, catastrophic histories / Sumathi Ramaswamy

Ramaswamy, Sumathi [Verfasser]

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 334 pages) : maps

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-324) and index

978-0-520-93185-5 ; 0-520-93185-8 ; 1-59734-723-X ; 978-1-59734-723-5 ; 0-520-24032-4

LB 49385 LB 56385

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 ci.