Hydrocriticism and colonialism in Latin America : water marks / Mabel Moraña, editor.
Moraña, Mabel, editor.
2022
PN56.W34
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Title
Hydrocriticism and colonialism in Latin America : water marks / Mabel Moraña, editor.
ISBN
9783031089039 (electronic bk.)
3031089030 (electronic bk.)
9783031089022
3031089022
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08903-9
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 192 pages) : color illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-08903-9 doi
Call Number
PN56.W34
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.9336
Summary
Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America is organized around the critical and theoretical "turn" known as hydro-criticism, an innovative approach to the study of the ways in which bodies of water (oceans, seas, rivers, archipelagos, lakes, etc.) impact the study of history, culture, and society. This volume proposes a hydro-critical approach to issues related to the colonial period. The analysed texts demonstrate not only the presence of water and oceanic trajectories as metaphorical devices, but the inherent implication of navigation, ports, islandic territories, drainage systems, floodings and the like in configuration of collective imaginaries, from colonial times to the present. This book encompasses studies of the decisive role water played in the world view from/about the "New World" since the discovery, both for the monarchy and the church, and the impact of oceanic journeys for the advancement of colonization and slavery. In chapters that combine historical, linguistic, literary and ethnographic approaches, this volume constitutes an attempt to expand the scope and methodology of colonial studies. At the same time, the continuity of maritime perspectives reaches the analysis of contemporary literature, thus demonstrating the importance of this critical paradigm for the study of Caribbean cultures. In this respect, studies particularly illuminate the connection between popular beliefs and oceanic dimensions, as well as on issues of gender and ethnicity.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed February 3, 2023).
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Moraña, Mabel, editor.
Series
Maritime literature and culture.
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Hydrocriticism and colonialism in Latin America.
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2. The Pacific Ocean as a Space of Freedom, Danger, and Economic Success for the Colonial Project in Verdadera descripcion de la Provincia y Tierra de Las Esmeraldas
3. English and Irish Missionaries in New Spain: A Hydrocolonial Reading of Religion and Empire
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5. Imagining a Multi-Modal Digital Corpus of Early Modern Maritime Texts
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7. Pantitlan or Desague: Technology and Secularization in Colonial Mexico City
8. "Water, Only Water on All Parts" : Re/imagining the Middle Passage in Teresa Cardenas Mae Sereia.

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