Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture / / edited by Alexandra Ganser, Charne Lavery.

“In this book, editors Ganser and Lavery and an impressive roster of contributors bring bracing critical insight to the study of oceanic forms of capacious movement and brutal constraint. Attentive to the decolonial, ecological, aesthetic, and socio-political dimensions of both blue humanities and m...

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Superior document:Maritime Literature and Culture,
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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Language:English
Series:Maritime Literature and Culture,
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 255 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Maritime Im/mobilities
  • 2. Storied Waves: Maritime Connections and Subaltern Knowledge in Arctic and Mediterranean Literary Contact Zones
  • 3. Birds of the Plastic Pacific: Moving (the) Masses
  • 4. Maritime Mobility and the Work of Susanna Rowson: Transatlantic Perspectives
  • 5. Reading and Writing the Ship in “Benito Cereno” and “The Heroic Slave”
  • 6. South Seas Speculation in Finance and Fiction
  • 7. From HI-SEAS to Outer Space: Discourses of Water and Territory in U.S. Pacific Imperialism and Representations of U.S. Mars Colonization
  • 8. Precarious Passages: On Migrant Maritime Mobilities, ca. 1907
  • 9. High Sea and Sediment: Watermarks in Ilse Aichinger’s Work
  • 10. “Ocean People”: Pacific (Im)Mobilities in the Chinese American Imaginary
  • 11. Going Nowhere: Oceanic Im/Mobilities in North American Refugee Fiction
  • 12. “Spoken nowhere but on the water”: Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies and Lost Languages of the Indian Ocean World.