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