The lost land of Lemuria: fabulous geographies, catastrophic histories
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Beteilige Person: Ramaswamy, Sumathi (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©2004
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-324) and index
Placing loss -- Science in the service of loss -- Occult losses -- Living loss at land's end -- Flooding history : geographies of loss -- Mapping loss -- Laboring against loss
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
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 334 pages)
ISBN:0520240324
0520244400
0520931858
1282357697
159734723X
9780520240322
9780520244405
9780520931855
9781282357693
9781597347235