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Negotiating waters : seas, oceans, and passageways in the colonial and postcolonial anglophone world /
"This book examines how seas, oceans, and passageways have shaped and reshaped cultural identities, spurred stories of reunion and separation, and redefined entire nations. It explores how entire communities have crossed seas and oceans, voluntarily or not, to settle in foreign lands and underg...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wilmington, DE :
Vernon Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Series in literary studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / André Dodeman and Nancy Pedri
- Part 1: Controlling water
- Chapter 1. Negotiating oceans, islands, continents, and British imperial ambitions in the maps of Herman Moll, 1697-1732 / Alex Zukas
- Chapter 2. Journeys to the source of the River Oxus: Victorian desires, colonial texts / Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill
- Chapter 3. "Newfoundland's Robinson Crusoe?": mobiility, masculinity, and the failure of ecological management in Michael Crummey's Sweetland / Caitlin Charman
- Part 2: Crossing water
- Chapter 4. William Braford's Of Plimoth Plantation: crossing the ocean, travelling between two poles of being / Jean-Luc Tendil
- Chapter 5. "Whatever passes through the paths of the sea" (Psalm 8:8): shipboard liminality and the sea voyage as the crucible of missionary identity from the 1820s to the 1920s / Rhonda Semple
- Chapter 6. Crossing the sea: Marie Stopes' expedition to the northern wilds of Japan as expression of transcontinental contacts and cultural exchange / Marie Géraldine Rademacher
- Interlude: Interview with Lisa Moore
- Part 3: Reimagining water
- Chapter 7. Waterways and ships as heterotopias of memory in Caryl Phillips' narratives / Svetlana Stefanova
- Chapter 8. The poetics of water in Ghosh's Ibis trilogy / Neela Cathelain
- Chapter 9. Material ecocriticism: maritime trade, displacement, and the environment in Amitav Ghosh's fictional waterscape / Suhasini Vincent
- . Chapter 10. Negotiating water in times of drought: an ecocritical study of Cli-fi novels Paolo Bacigalupi's The water knife and Benjamin Percy's Dead lands / Claire Perrin.