ebooks Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival; 1934-1990 (American Crossroads) by Lon Kurashige in History

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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.