Maurer / Anais Maurer The Ocean on Fire

Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4780-5905-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Anaïs Maurer foregrounds Pacific literature as a key archive for surviving and thriving in an environment in which Indigenous inhabitants have been bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maurer, Anaïs

Anais Maurer, Maurer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ozeanische & Austronesische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi
Note on Language xv
Introduction. “We Are Not Drowning—We Are Fighting” 1
1. Isletism: The Latest Stage of Orientalism
2. Oceanitude: A Philosophy for the Anthropocene
3. Atomic Animals: The Hidden Face of the Sixth Mass Extinction
4. The H-Bomb and Humor: The Arts of Laughing at Death and Diseases
5. Radiation Refugees: Rethinking the Age of Mass Migration
Conclusion. “With Our Hearts Broken and Our Eyes Peeled for Beauty”
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anaïs Maurer is Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University.