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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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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Children's, Teenage & educational Children's / Teenage: general non-fiction Mysteries, the supernatural, monsters & mythological beings (Children’s/Teenage)

• Plný název: Lost Land of Lemuria
• Podnázev: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories
• Autor: Sumathi Ramaswamy
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 384
• EAN: 9780520244405
• ISBN: 0520244400
• ID: 04617280
• Nakladatelství: University of California Press
• Hmotnost: 548 g
• Rozměry: 226 × 153 × 20 mm
• Datum vydání: 27. September 2004

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