Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather

Anne Collett is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wollongong, Australia.Russell McDougall is Professor of English at the University of New England, Australia.Sue Thomas is Professor of English at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

• Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather, Anne Collett, Russell MacDougall, and Sue Thomas.- Tropical Cyclones in Mauritian Literature, Srilata Ravi.- Pacific Revolt: The Typhoon, Japan, and American Imperialism in Melville’s Moby-Dick, Sascha Morrell.- Tropical Modernism in Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales, Arnold Anthony Schmidt.- Through the Eye of Surplus Accumulation: Joseph Conrad’s The Nigger of the “Narcissus” and Typhoon, Sudesh Mishra.- Flood, Storm and Typhoon in Tanizaki Junichiro’s The Makioka Sisters, Leith Morton.- Cyclones, Indigenous and Invasive, in Northern Australia, Russell McDougall.- Salba Istorya / Salba Buhay: Save Story / Save Life: Collaborative Storying in the Wake of Typhoons, Merlinda Bobis.- Resistance in the Rubble: Post-San Zenón Santo Domingo from Ramón Lugo Lovatón’s Escombros: Huracán del 1930 to Carlos Federico Pérez’s La ciudad herida, Maria Cristina Fumagalli.- Cycles and Cyclones: Structural andCultural Displacement in Gisèle Pineau’s Macadam Dreams, Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado.- Catastrophic History, Cyclonic Wreckage and Repair in William Gilbert’s The Hurricane and Diana McCaulay’s Huracan, Sue Thomas.- Hurricane Story (with special reference to the poetry of Olive Senior), Anne Collett.- Bibliography.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.