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Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ganser, Alexandra.
Other Authors: Lavery, Charne.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Maritime Literature and Culture Series
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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.

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