Sea Changes (eBook, PDF)

Historicizing the Ocean
Redaktion: Klein, Bernhard; Mackenthun, Gesa

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Produktbeschreibung

The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship. SeaChanges re-evaluates the view that history happens mainly on dry land and makes the case for a creative reinterpretation of the role of the sea: not merely as a passage from one country to the next, but a historical site deserving close study.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135940478
• Artikelnr.: 38266648

Autorenporträt

Bernhard Klein is Lecturer in Literature at the University of Essex. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Fictions of the Sea: CriticalPerspectives on the Ocean in British Literature andCulture. Gesa Mackenthun is Professor in American Studies at Rostock University in Germany. In addition to numerous essays on the topics of nineteenth-century American literature, colonialism, and postcolonial studies, she is the author of Metaphors of Dispossession:American Beginnings and the Translation of Empire,1492-1637.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Deep Times
Deep Spaces: Civilizing the Sea
2. Costume Changes: Passing at Sea and on the Beach
3. The Global Economy and the Sulu Zone: Connections
Commodities and Culture
4. Ahab's Boat: Non-European Seamen in Western Ships of Exploration and Commerce
5. Staying Afloat: Literary Shipboard Encounters from Columbus to Equiano
6. The Red Atlantic; or
'a terrible blast swept over the heaving sea'
7. Chartless Voyages and Protean Geographies: Nineteenth-Century American Fictions of the Black Atlantic
8. 'At Sea-Coloured Passenger'
9. Slavery
Insurance and Sacrifice in the Black Atlantic
10. Cast Away: The Uttermost Parts of the Earth