Blue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperative

Sidney I. Dobrin is a Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Florida.

• 1. Unearthing Ecocriticism 2. Scaling the Ocean 3. Object Ocean 4. Seeing Ocean 5. Protein Economies 6. Blue Frontiers

"Blue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperative calls for ecocriticism to take to the sea, offering an indispensable guide to navigating between the many disciplinary and methodological currents arising in the blue humanities. The scope of the book, alone, is impressive--Dobrin assembles a vast archive of oceanic literature, visual art, television and film, games, theory and criticism, making this an invaluable resource and potent provocation for the environmental humanities, animal studies, and the emerging blue humanities." – Dr. Stacy Alaimo, Professor of English, Environmental Studies Core Faculty Member, University of Oregon, USA"As Ishmael might’ve said, it is the easiest thing in the world for a book to look as if it had a great secret in it. ‘Blue Ecocriticism’ actually does: its expansive, sophisticated and entertaining account of Ocean as a dominant, threatened material-semiotic actor on Earth offers a digestible remedy for ecocritics’ ‘ocean deficit disorder.’ Be it eco-cosmopolitanism, oceanography or Object Oriented Ontology, Dobrin knows the ropes." – Greg Garrard, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, Canada "With the publication of Blue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperative Sid Dobrin takes the stage of humanistic scholarship on the marine environment with a highly engaging introduction to the changing conditions and conceptions of the human relationship to the world’s oceans. Dobrin’s impassioned and insightful work ups the ante for current ecocritical scholarship by calling for (and demonstrating) an oceanic commitment that is both intellectual and personal as well as local, global, and ongoing. By going all in with his oceanic scholarship, Dobrin demonstrates why the rest of us should, too." – Daniel Brayton, Julian W. Abernethy Chair of Literature, Director, Environmental Studies Program, USA