Transoceanic and Transmedial Imaginaries in the Indian Ocean

List of contents

Introduction
Part I: Alterity? The Unsettling Potential of the Indian Ocean
Chapter 1: The Uneven (Critical) Seascape:(Re)orienting Indian Ocean Literary Studies toward the Debate on World-Literature
Chapter 2: Perceptions of Alterity in the Indian Ocean
Chapter 3: The woman warrior image in contemporary Southwest Indian Ocean women's performance poetry
Chapter 4: "Daring to Détour: The Indian Ocean and Swahili Echoes in The Dragonfly Sea
Part II: Vernacular Indian Ocean Cosmopolis: Materializations and Textualisations
Chapter 5: 'A Great Stillness Fell': Materializing Indian Ocean Immobilities in Sheikh Khamis Nassor al-Nabhany's "Epic of the Useless Clove"
Chapter 6: Swahili Library Worlds: Unpacking the Indian Ocean Intellectual History of Three Twentieth-Century "Living Archives" in East Africa
Chapter 7: Croaking Toads and Singing Youth: When the Sega Angaze Meets the Francophone Novel
Chapter 8: The Translocal Baraza and Its Zanzibari Imaginaries
Part III: Intermedial Thalassological Relations

Chapter 10: "Ceux qu'on jette à la mer..." - tidalectic memories of the ocean
Chapter 11: Of Boats, Plates, and Waves: Portrait of a Goan Sea Artist
Chapter 12: Sensing Territory, History, and Contemporary Art in the Mascarenes Archipelago

Product details

• Authors: Ute (University of Bayreuth Fendler
• Assisted by: Ute Fendler (Editor), Vierke Clarissa (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 09.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032955506
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3295550-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Routledge Series on the Indian Ocean and Trans-Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Asia, Africa, General & world history, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Asian History, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, African History, General and world history, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies