Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture
This open access edited collection explores various aspects of how oceanic im/ mobilities have been framed and articulated in the literary and cultural imagination. It covers the entanglements of maritime mobility and immobility as they are articulated and problematized in selected literature and cu...
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- 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