Tracking the literature of tropical weather : typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones
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Tracking the literature of tropical weather : typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones
(Literatures, cultures, and the environment)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons, collectively understood as "tropical weather." Historically, literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of symbolic language and technical device, making use of violent storms in the form of plot, drama, trope, and image in order to highlight their relationship to the political, social, and psychological realms of human affairs. Charting this relationship through writers such as Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Gisele Pineau, and other writers from places like Australia, Japan, Mauritius, the Caribbean, and the Philippines, this ground-breaking collection of essays illuminates the specificities of the ways local, national, and regional communities have made sense and even relied upon the literary to endure the devastation caused by deadly tropical weather.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
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 Zenon Santo Domingo from Ramon Lugo Lovaton's Escombros: Huracan del 1930 to Carlos Federico Perez's La ciudad herida
Maria Cristina Fumagalli
Cycles and Cyclones: Structural and Cultural Displacement in Gisele 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<
by "Nielsen BookData"