Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture.

• Superior document: Maritime Literature and Culture Series
• Author: Ganser, Alexandra.
• TeilnehmendeR: Lavery, Charne.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Maritime Literature and Culture Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Maritime Im/Mobilities -- Oceanic Revisions: From the Maritime Frontier to Archipelagic America -- New Directions in Oceanic Studies -- Mobility Studies and Oceanic Cultural Studies -- Works Cited -- Part I: Shapes of Water -- Chapter 2: Storied Waves: Maritime Connections and Subaltern Knowledge in Arctic and Mediterranean Literary Contact Zones -- Arctic Mysteries and Indigenous Knowledge -- Mobile Maritime Packages -- The "Black" Mediterranean -- In Conclusion: Rescuing "Wasted Lives" -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Birds of the Plastic Pacific: Moving (the) Masses -- Birds -- Albatross -- Rubber Duck -- Birds Again: Motif, Motivation, Mobilization -- Works Cited -- Part II: Colonial/Imperial Mobilities of the Sea -- Chapter 4: Maritime Mobility and the Work of Susanna Rowson: Transatlantic Perspectives -- A Tale of Shipwreck -- Imagining Transatlantic Mobility -- Imperial Fantasies in "Rise and Progress of Navigation" -- Becoming-American in Reuben and Rachel -- A "Happy" Ending: Slaves in Algiers -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: Reading and Writing the Ship in "Benito Cereno" and "The Heroic Slave" -- The Ship as Contested Space -- Melville and the Machinery of Enslavement -- Madison Washington's Nautical Literacy -- Conclusions: New Mobilities and Life After Social Death -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: South Seas Speculation in Finance and Fiction -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: From HI-SEAS to Outer Space: Discourses of Water and Territory in U.S. Pacific Imperialism and Representations of U.S. Mars Colonization -- Introduction: Hawai'i as "sMars" -- Water as Territory in U.S. Imperialisms -- Surf or Turf? Negotiating the Territory of Mars in Andy Weir's The Martian -- Conclusions: Mars in the U.S. National Imaginary -- Work Cited.

Part III: The Aesthetics of Oceangoing -- Chapter 8: Precarious Passages: On Migrant Maritime Mobilities, ca. 1907 -- Maritime Modernity, Part 1 -- The Steerage: Points of View -- Migrant Maritime Im/Mobility and the Grand Ocean Liner -- Transatlantic Transfers: Subject Constitution at Sea -- Maritime Modernity, Part 2 -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: High Sea and Sediment: Watermarks in Ilse Aichinger's Work -- Flood and Memory -- Narrative Riverbed, Run Dry -- The Sea: A Radio Play -- Stain-Sediment -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10: "Ocean People": Maritime (Im)Mobilities in the Chinese American Imaginary -- Crossing Oceans: Chinese (American) Mobility in the Pacific and Beyond -- Ship Voyages -- Island Sojourns -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11: Going Nowhere: Oceanic Im/Mobilities in North American Refugee Fiction -- A Literature of Flight: Writing against Necropolitics -- The Prec(ar)ious Lives of Refugees: De/Territorialization in Edwidge Danticat's "Children of the Sea" -- Genealogies of Violence and Survival: Madeleine Thien's Dogs at the Perimeter -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 12: "Spoken Nowhere but on the Water": Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies and Lost-and-Found Languages of the Indian Ocean World -- Introduction -- Laskari -- Lost Languages of the World of Work -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.