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OverviewThis 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 world—Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Lindsey Collen—alongside 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Charne LaveryPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2021 Weight: 0.263kg ISBN: 9783030871185ISBN 10: 3030871185 Pages: 178 Publication Date: 01 January 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1 The Literary Indian Ocean: An Introduction2 Joseph Conrad’s Imperial Indian Ocean3 Amitav Ghosh’s Subaltern Sea Histories4 Abdulrazak Gurnah’s African Ocean5 Lindsey Collen’s Oceanic Feminisms6 Towards a Planetary Sea—ConclusionReviewsAuthor InformationCharne 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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