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Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America

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Water Marks, Maritime Literature and Culture

ISBN: 3031089022
ISBN 13: 9783031089022
Herausgeber: Mabel Moraña
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xii, 192 S., 13 farbige Illustr., 192 p. 13 illus. in color.
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.09.2022
Auflage: 1/2023
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America is organized around the critical and theoretical „turn“ known as hydro-criticism, an innovative approach to the study of the ways in which bodies of water (oceans, seas, rivers, archipelagos, lakes, etc.) impact the study of history, culture, and society. This volume proposes a hydro-critical approach to issues related to the colonial period. The analysed texts demonstrate not only the presence of water and oceanic trajectories as metaphorical devices, but the inherent implication of navigation, ports, islandic territories, drainage systems, floodings and the like in configuration of collective imaginaries, from colonial times to the present. This book encompasses studies of the decisive role water played in the world view from/about the „New World“ since the discovery, both for the monarchy and the church, and the impact of oceanic journeys for the advancement of colonization and slavery. In chapters that combine historical, linguistic, literary and ethnographic approaches, this volume constitutes an attempt to expand the scope and methodology of colonial studies. At the same time, the continuity of maritime perspectives reaches the analysis of contemporary literature, thus demonstrating the importance of this critical paradigm for the study of Caribbean cultures. In this respect, studies particularly illuminate the connection between popular beliefs and oceanic dimensions, as well as on issues of gender and ethnicity.

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Autorenporträt

Mabel Moraña is William S. Gass Professor of Arts and Sciences, and Director of Latin American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. She is the author of numerous books on colonial and contemporary literature and cultural theory.

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