Writing Ocean Worlds: Indian Ocean Fiction in English

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Acknowledgements About the Book Praise for Writing Ocean Worlds Contents About the Author Chapter 1: The Literary Indian Ocean: An Introduction World-writing, Ocean-writing Complicating Sea Around the Indian Ocean World in Eighteen (or so) Novels References Chapter 2: Joseph Conrad’s Imperial Indian Ocean Writing the “British Lake”: Nineteenth Century Indian Ocean Fictions “The Cruel Grip of This Sunny and Smiling Sea:” Conrad’s Coordinates Maritime Modernism in Lord Jim, or, the Imperial Romance Meets Orientalism at Sea “Mere Wanderers:” Drifters, Beachcombers and Lascars Conclusion References Chapter 3: Amitav Ghosh’s Subaltern Sea Histories “Nothing in Common, Except the Indian Ocean:” Non-National Networks “Admirably Cosmopolitan:” Accommodating Difference “A Real Gallimaufry:” Multilingualism, the Ship, and the Novel “There is Nothing in the History Books:” Writing the Subaltern Sea Conclusion References Chapter 4: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s African Ocean Writing Indian Ocean Africa “The Sadness of Geography”: Melancholic Mobilities “A Forbearing Society Built as Only Muslims Know How:” Cosmopolitanism and Islam “Putting the Stories Alongside Each Other:” Worlding Forms conclusion References Chapter 5: Lindsey Collen’s Oceanic Feminisms “Where is the Nearest Anything other than Sea:” Mapping the Island Nation “God Saw Mauritius Then He Made Paradise”: The Mauritian Miracle “Thinking Slavethoughts Again:” Haunting Passages “Dancing Revolutions:” Indian Ocean Feminisms Conclusion References Chapter 6: Towards a Planetary Sea—Conclusion References Index