The lost land of Lemuria : fabulous geographies, catastrophic histories /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America Books at JSTOR Evidence Based Acquisitions |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 334 pages) : maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-324) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520931855 0520931858 159734723X 9781597347235 1417545283 9781417545285 |
