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Chatterjee, Sukla et al. (Eds.): Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2023 (Anglophone Postcolonial Studies, Volume 1). https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1046

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11/09/2023

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Sukla Chatterjee (Ed.), Joanna Chojnicka (Ed.), Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Ed.), Kerstin Knopf (Ed.)

Postcolonial Oceans

Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities

Anglophone Postcolonial Studies

This book contributes to the study of oceans, seas, coastal waters, and rivers within blue humanities by broadening, circulating, and interweaving knowledge about such waters, ocean epistemologies, and sea narratives from pluriversal epistemological, geographical, cultural, and disciplinary perspectives. The contributors from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, North America and the Pacific explore the interconnections between oceans, coastal areas, rivers, humans, animals, plants, organisms, and landscapes in the fields of cultural history and cultural studies, critical race and postcolonial studies, marine and environmental studies, linguistics, literature, film and media studies.

Sukla Chatterjee is lecturer at the University of Aberdeen in Anglophone postcolonial literatures and cultures. Her research interests include women and travel narratives in colonial India, blue humanities, dystopian literary studies, famine studies and literatures of hunger.

Joanna Chojnicka is Assistant Professor in Linguistics and English as a Second Language at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Previously, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Cardiff University in Wales, as well as a postdoctoral fellow in Poznań, Bremen and Konstanz (Germany). Her research interests include gender, sexuality and discourse studies, multilingualism, translation and minority languages, as well as postcolonial, queer and eco approaches to linguistics.

Anna-Katharina Hornidge is director of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and professor for Global Sustainable Development at the University of Bonn. In her research, she works on knowledges and innovation development as well as questions of natural resources governance in agriculture and fisheries in Asia and Africa. Anna Hornidge serves as expert advisor at national, EU and UN level: as member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change of the German Government (WBGU), co-chair (with Gesine Schwan) of SDSN Germany, and as part of the executive council of the German UNESCO Commission.

Kerstin Knopf is professor for North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen and director of the Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies (INPUTS) and the Bremen Institute for Canada and Quebec Studies (BICQS). She is currently president of the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS, 2021–23). Her main research interests are Indigenous film and literature, postcolonial studies focusing on North America and the Pacific region, blue humanities, postcolonial knowledge systems, and American and Canadian romantic literature.

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Table of Contents
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Title
I–IV
Table of Contents
V–VII
Kerstin Knopf, Sukla Chatterjee, Joanna Chojnicka, Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Introduction—Postcolonial Oceans
Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities
1–19
Oceans and Knowledges
21
Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa
Interview with Robbie Shilliam and Nicholas Faraclas
23–35
Karin Amimoto Ingersoll
Seascape Epistemology
An Embodied Knowledge
37–51
Nicholas Faraclas, Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias
Subaltern Currents and Transgressive Waves
Transoceanic Agents and “Creole Languages”
53–70
Kerstin Knopf
Postcolonial Sea Fiction
Salt Water and Marine Knowledges in Fred D’Aguiar, Dionne Brand, and Kiana Davenport
71–103
Oceans and Islands
105
Bill Ashcroft
Retracted: Oceans
The Space of Future Thinking
107–122
Stefanie Mueller
Sketches of Salt Water Poetry
Herman Melville’s “The Encantadas, or The Enchanted Isles”
123–137
Sebastian Jablonski
A Different Kind of Hybridity—An Early British Depiction of Pitcairn Islanders
139–157
Oceans and Ports
159
Varsha Patel
Earlier Sailing Boats Moved (“Pehla Vahano Halta”)
Memories, Princely Ports and Routes of Sailing Boats along the Bhavnagar Coast, Gujarat, Western Indian Ocean
161–187
Ulrike Schmieder
The Remembrance of Enslavement in the Atlantic Ocean Space in Postcolonial Port Towns
Barcelona and Cadiz, Havana and Matanzas
189–218
Lilli Hasche, Janne Jensen
The Colonial Making of Bremen’s Peri-Urban Port Area
219–236
Oceans and Identity
237
Gigi Adair
Archipelago-izing or Re-continentalizing Africa
Oceanic Paradigms in Two Recent West African Novels
239–255
Frank Schulze-Engler
From British Lake to Afrasian Sea
Recalibrations of the Indian Ocean in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s “The Dragonfly Sea”
257–267
Arnab Kumar Sinha
Mapping the Relationship between the Sea and the Humans
The Symbolic Sea in Mallika Krishnamurthy’s “Six Yards of Silk”
269–283
Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt
“How Much of Me Is My Own?”
Imagining the Ocean in Thi Bui’s “The Best We Could Do”
285–304
Stephen Henighan
Transcontinental Waters
The Anti-postcolonial Tide in Angolan Fiction and Film
305–326
Oceans and Responsibility
327
Rozena Maart
Meditations on the Sea and its African Subjects
329–365
Sukla Chatterjee
“Water is Another Country”
Waterscapes and the Refugee Crisis
367–396
Marlena Tronicke
“Keep the secrets of the past buried”
“Taboo’s” Salt Water Hauntings
397–413
Oluseun Adekunmi Tanimomo
Waterscapes of Waste and Wealth
Environmental Pollution in Helon Habila’s “Oil on Water”
415–430
Anne Collett
Building on the Strata of the Dead
The Culture of Coral Reef Ecologies
431–454
About the Authors
455–463

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