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This open access edited collection explores various aspects of how oceanic im/ mobilities have been framed and articulated in the literary and cultural imagination. It covers the entanglements of maritime mobility and immobility as they are articulated and problematized in selected literature and cultural forms from the early modern period to the present. In particular, it brings cultural mobility studies into conversation with the maritime and oceanic humanities. The contributors examine the interface between the traditional Eurocentric imagination of the sea as romantic and metaphorical, and the materiality of the sea as a deathbed for racialized and illegalized humans as well as non-human populations

Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture

Acknowledgments

1.     Introduction: Maritime Im/Mobilities
Alexandra Ganser and Charne Lavery

Shapes of Water

2.     Storied Waves: Maritime Connections and Subaltern Knowledge in Arctic and Mediterranean Literary Contact Zones

Gesa Mackenthun

3.     Birds of the Plastic Pacific: Moving (the) Masses

Kylie Crane                                                                 

Colonial/Imperial Mobilities of the Sea

4.     Maritime Mobility and the Work of Susanna Rowson: Transatlantic Perspectives

Leopold Lippert

5.     Reading and Writing the Ship in "Benito Cereno" and "The Heroic Slave"

Thomas O. Massnick

6.     South Seas Speculation in Finance and Fiction

Melissa Kennedy

7.     From HI-SEAS to Outer Space: Discourses of Water and Territory in U.S. Pacific Imperialism and Representations of U.S. Mars Colonization

Jens Temmen

The Aesthetics of Oceangoing

8.     Precarious Passages: On Migrant Maritime Mobilities, ca. 1907

Sarah Sander

Translation: Eléonore Tarla and Alexandra Ganser

9.     High Sea and Sediment: Watermarks in Ilse Aichinger's Work

Annegret Pelz

Translation: Alexandra Ganser and Leopold Lippert

10.  "Ocean People": Pacific (Im)Mobilities in the Chinese American Imaginary

Nicole Poppenhagen 

11.  Going Nowhere: Oceanic Im/Mobilities in North American Refugee Fiction

Alexandra Ganser

12.  "Spoken nowhere but on the water": Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies and Lost Languages of the Indian Ocean World

Charne Lavery

Index