Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Dilip M Menon, Nishat Zaidi, India) Zaidi, Nishat (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, Dilip M. Menon

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This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. Introducing the central conceptual category of ocean as method, it analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, folklore, local histories, autobiographies, music and performance. It explores the constant flow of people, material and ideologies across the waters and how they make their presence felt in a cosmopolitan thinking of the connections of the world. Going beyond violent histories of slavery and indenture that generate global connections, it tracks the movements of sailors, boatmen, religious teachers, merchants, and adventurers.The essays in this volume summon up this miscegenated history in which land and water are ever linked. A significant rethinking of world history, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, especially connected history and maritime history, literature, and Global South studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-03-29
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt412 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor270
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032292977

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Note on ContributorsIntroductionNishat Zaidi and Dilip MenonSection I: The Poetics of Fluvial Cosmopolitanism1. Going Below the Waterline: Hydrocolonial Methods, Creolized WaterIsabel Hofmeyr2.Fellowship and Aversion in the South: The Challenges of South-South CollaborationElleke Boehmer3. Found in Prison: The Poetics of Oceanic HistoriesGeeta Patel4. Remembering the Bengal Delta: ca. 1450-1850Rila Mukherjee5. “The wind sketches landscapes of words”: Oceanic poetics in the Horn of Africa and western Indian Ocean”Kelsey McFaulSection II: Oceanic Narratives6. Padmabati of the Oceans: Unfreedom and Belonging in Syed Alaol’s PadmabatiSwati Moitra7. Senses Translated: Paṭappāṭṭus in the Indian Ocean, Circulation of Texts and Sounds across Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit CosmopoleisIhsan Ul IhthisamSection III: Constructing Space8. Of Those on Shore: The Dhow Trade and Mobility in the Indian OceanNidhi Mahajan9. Towards an Architecture of the Indian Ocean: Mapping the Syncretic Grammar of Coastal Cities & Architecture through Ibn Battuta’s Water Journeys (1342-1347)Iqtedar Alam10. Through the Eyes of the Boat People: Redefining Oceans in the 21st centuryChrisalice Ela Joseph and Vinod BalakrishnanSection IV: Religion, Knowledge and Law Across the Oceans11. Literate Illiterates: Arabi-Malayalam and Parallel Process of Knowledge Production among Muslims in KeralaM.H.Ilias.12. ʿUlamāʾ Networks across the Seas: Understanding the Trajectory of Islam in Medieval MalabarMohammed Shameem K. K.13. Encountering the ‘Other: Pilgrims at Sea and Accounts of Journeys to Hejaz in the Age of Oceanic MobilityMuhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil14. Christianity, Conversion and Caste: Reflecting on Identity in Dalit Christian Malayalam Writings in Post-Colonial IndiaSteven S. George15. Rainbow Waters: Towards a Queer Coalition between India and BotswanaKashish DuaIndex