Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather: Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones

ISBN-13: 9783319415154 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 300 str.

Anne Collett; Russell McDougall; Sue Thomas

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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 Zenón Santo Domingo from Ramón Lugo Lovatón’s Escombros: Huracán del 1930 to Carlos Federico Pérez’s La ciudad herida                                                                 

Maria Cristina Fumagalli

Cycles and Cyclones: Structural and Cultural Displacement in Gisèle 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<

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Anne Collett is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Russell McDougall is Professor of English at the University of New England, Australia.

Sue Thomas is Professor of English at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Blurb

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, Gisèle 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.