Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture

1. Introduction: Maritime Im/mobilities.- 2. Storied Waves: Maritime Connections and Subaltern Knowledge in Arctic and Mediterranean Literary Contact Zones.- 3. Birds of the Plastic Pacific: Moving (the) Masses.- 4. Maritime Mobility and the Work of Susanna Rowson: Transatlantic Perspectives.- 5. Reading and Writing the Ship in “Benito Cereno” and “The Heroic Slave”.- 6. South Seas Speculation in Finance and Fiction.- 7. From HI-SEAS to Outer Space: Discourses of Water and Territory in U.S. Pacific Imperialism and Representations of U.S. Mars Colonization.- 8. Precarious Passages: On Migrant Maritime Mobilities, ca. 1907.- 9. High Sea and Sediment: Watermarks in Ilse Aichinger’s Work.- 10. “Ocean People”: Pacific (Im)Mobilities in the Chinese American Imaginary
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11. Going Nowhere: Oceanic Im/Mobilities in North American Refugee Fiction.- 12. “Spoken nowhere but on the water”: Amitav Ghosh’s
Sea of Poppies
and Lost Languages of the Indian Ocean World