Writing ocean worlds : Indian ocean fiction in English / Charne Lavery.
2021
PR1149
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Title
Writing ocean worlds : Indian ocean fiction in English / Charne Lavery.
ISBN
9783030871161 (electronic bk.)
3030871169 (electronic bk.)
9783030871154
3030871150
3030871169 (electronic bk.)
9783030871154
3030871150
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language
English
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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10.1007/978-3-030-87116-1 doi
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PR1149
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.914
Summary
This book explores the Indian Ocean world as it is produced by colonial and postcolonial fiction in English. It analyses the work of three contemporary authors who write the Indian Ocean as a region and worldAmitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Lindsey Collenalongside maritime-imperial precursor Joseph Conrad. If postcolonial literatures are sometimes read as national allegories, this book presents an account of a different and significant strand of postcolonial fiction whose geography, in contrast, is coastal and transoceanic. This work imaginatively links east Africa, south Asia and the Arab world via a network of south-south connections that precedes and survives European imperialism. The novels and stories provide a vivid, storied sense of place on both a local and an oceanic scale, and in so doing remap the world as having its centre in the ocean and the south. Charne Lavery is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria and Research Fellow on the Oceanic Humanities for the Global South project based at WISER, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Literary Indian Ocean: An Introduction
Chapter 2: Joseph Conrads Imperial Indian Ocean
Chapter 3: Amitav Ghoshs Subaltern Sea Histories
Chapter 4: Abdulrazak Gurnahs African Ocean
Chapter 5: Lindsey Collens Oceanic Feminisms
Chapter 6: Towards a Planetary SeaConclusion.
Chapter 2: Joseph Conrads Imperial Indian Ocean
Chapter 3: Amitav Ghoshs Subaltern Sea Histories
Chapter 4: Abdulrazak Gurnahs African Ocean
Chapter 5: Lindsey Collens Oceanic Feminisms
Chapter 6: Towards a Planetary SeaConclusion.