Title Writing ocean worlds : Indian ocean fiction in English / Charne Lavery

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) Series New comparisons in world literature New comparisons in world literature. 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 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 Notes Includes index Print version record Subject Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- -- Criticism and interpretation Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation Collen, Lindsey -- Criticism and interpretation Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Collen, Lindsey fast Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 fast Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- fast Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- fast Subject Indian Ocean literature (English) -- History and criticism Postcolonialism in literature. Imperialism in literature. Imperialism in literature Indian Ocean literature (English) Literature Postcolonialism in literature SUBJECT Indian Ocean Region -- In literature Subject Indian Ocean Region Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030871161 3030871169

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