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Make Waves : Water in Contemporary Literature and Film /
"Make Waves: Water in Contemporary Literature and Film underscores how water is a creatively transformative symbol through which we synthesize environmental concerns and a source of cultural and political tensions exacerbated by climate change. At its core, Make Waves seeks to demonstrate that...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Reno, Nevada :
University of Nevada Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Copyright Page; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; Part 1: Water Natures: Culture, Identity, and Creativity; 1. Liquidity Incorporated: Economic Tides and Fluid Data in Hito Steyerl's Liquidity Inc.; 2. Material States of Poetry: The Stanza Stones; 3. Preying on Water: Hunting Spiritual and Environmental Rebirth on the Kentucky River in Selected Essays from Wendell Berry's The Long-Legged House; 4. "Let everything that binds fall": The Significance of Water in David Vann's Fiction; 5. Water-Blind: Erosion and (Re)Generation in Colm Tóibín's The Heather Blazing
- Part 2: Water Cultures: Nations, Borders, and Water Wars6. A Clash of Water Cultures in John Nichols's The Milagro Beanfield War; 7. Watershed Ethics and Dam Politics: Mapping Biopolitics, Race, and Resistance in Sleep Dealer and Watershed; 8. Thomas King Tells a Different Story: Dams, Rivers, and Indigenous Literary Hydromythology; 9. Shifting Tides: A Literary Exploration of the Colorado River Delta; 10. Poetry and Revolution on the Brink of Ecological Disaster: Ernesto Cardenal and the Interoceanic Canal in Nicaragua
- 11. "Bad for the Glass": Chinatown's Skewed Rendition of the California Water Wars12. The Cinematic Portrayal of Water Wars in Bolivia and Ecuador; Part 3: Arid and Awash: High Pollution, High Energy Demands, and High Waters; 13. Troubled Waters: Unveiling Industrial Negligence in Three Deepwater Horizon Films; 14. The River as Character in Niger Delta Poetry; 15. Water and Mental Health in Three British Climate Fiction Novels; 16. There Will Be Blood: Water Futures in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Water Knife and Claire Vaye Watkins's Gold Fame Citrus; Concluding Remarks; About the Contributors