Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture

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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 cultural forms from the early modern period to the present. In particular, it brings cultural mobility studies into conversation with the maritime and oceanic humanities. The contributors examine the interface between the traditional Eurocentric imagination of the sea as romantic and metaphorical, and the materiality of the sea as a deathbed for racialized and illegalized humans as well as non-human populations 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