Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture

Alexandra Ganser is Professor of North American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, where she also heads the interdisciplinary Research Platform “Mobile Cultures and Societies.” Charne Lavery is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria and Research Fellow on the Oceanic Humanities for the Global South project based at WISER, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.    ​

• 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.- 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