ISBN:
9780520931855
,
0520931858
,
159734723X
,
9781597347235
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 334 pages)
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maps
DDC:
001.94
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-324) and index
