Acknowledgements
About the Book
Praise for Writing Ocean Worlds
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: The Literary Indian Ocean: An Introduction
World-writing, Ocean-writing
Complicating Sea
Around the Indian Ocean World in Eighteen (or so) Novels
References
Chapter 2: Joseph Conrad’s Imperial Indian Ocean
Writing the “British Lake”: Nineteenth Century Indian Ocean Fictions
“The Cruel Grip of This Sunny and Smiling Sea:” Conrad’s Coordinates
Maritime Modernism in Lord Jim, or, the Imperial Romance Meets Orientalism at Sea
“Mere Wanderers:” Drifters, Beachcombers and Lascars
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Amitav Ghosh’s Subaltern Sea Histories
“Nothing in Common, Except the Indian Ocean:” Non-National Networks
“Admirably Cosmopolitan:” Accommodating Difference
“A Real Gallimaufry:” Multilingualism, the Ship, and the Novel
“There is Nothing in the History Books:” Writing the Subaltern Sea
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s African Ocean
Writing Indian Ocean Africa
“The Sadness of Geography”: Melancholic Mobilities
“A Forbearing Society Built as Only Muslims Know How:” Cosmopolitanism and Islam
“Putting the Stories Alongside Each Other:” Worlding Forms
conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Lindsey Collen’s Oceanic Feminisms
“Where is the Nearest Anything other than Sea:” Mapping the Island Nation
“God Saw Mauritius Then He Made Paradise”: The Mauritian Miracle
“Thinking Slavethoughts Again:” Haunting Passages
“Dancing Revolutions:” Indian Ocean Feminisms
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Towards a Planetary Sea—Conclusion
References
Index