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

Description: Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather by Anne Collett, Russell McDougall, Sue Thomas 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Back Cover 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, Gis Author Biography 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. Table of Contents 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 Melvilles Moby-Dick, Sascha Morrell.- Tropical Modernism in Joseph Conrads Sea Tales, Arnold Anthony Schmidt.- Through the Eye of Surplus Accumulation: Joseph Conrads The Nigger of the "Narcissus" and Typhoon, Sudesh Mishra.- Flood, Storm and Typhoon in Tanizaki Junichiros 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 Lovatóns Escombros: Huracán del 1930 to Carlos Federico Pérezs La ciudad herida, Maria Cristina Fumagalli.- Cycles and Cyclones: Structural andCultural Displacement in Gisèle Pineaus Macadam Dreams, Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado.- Catastrophic History, Cyclonic Wreckage and Repair in William Gilberts The Hurricane and Diana McCaulays Huracan, Sue Thomas.- Hurricane Story (with special reference to the poetry of Olive Senior), Anne Collett.- Bibliography.- Notes on Contributors.- Index. Promotional "A landmark compilation elegantly articulating what literature holds about the often devastating-yet rarely adequately reported-impacts of tropical weather extremes on the human condition." (Patrick D. Nunn, Professor of Geography, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia) "This engaging collection of essays on Pacific, Indian Ocean, and Caribbean storm-texts reveals how writing about and in response to tropical storms provides insight into cultures of survival and salvage. Unfolding a distinctive discourse of tropicality, the authors show how storms and literary culture spin themselves into each other." (Steve Mentz, Professor of English, St. Johns University, New York City, USA) "While tropical storms are often associated with the inevitability of natural disasters, the contributors to this comparative, transnational volume convincingly demonstrate the ways in which they are complex social and climatological events. Here, the turbulence of the tropics is a source of knowledge production, memory, aesthetics, empire, risk, vulnerability, representation, and an illuminator, as well as a catalyst for social relations. This is a welcome counter wind to prevailing representations of the tropics and will certainly transform our understanding of how disastrous events are both historical and representational." (Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Associate Professor of English, UCLA Institute for the Environment and Sustainability, USA) Feature Approaches tropical weather through an international array of contributors based in Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, and the UK Offers a wealth of source material including plays, novels, oral stories, travelogue, poetry, and some visual story texts Discusses the topic of natural disaster both in a metaphorical and physical sense. Details ISBN3319415158 ISBN-10 3319415158 ISBN-13 9783319415154 Format Hardcover Short Title TRACKING THE LITERATURE OF TRO Language English Media Book Imprint Springer International Publishing AG Subtitle Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Edited by Sue Thomas Pages 300 Edition 1st Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-01-16 UK Release Date 2017-01-16 Illustrations 2 Illustrations, color; XI, 300 p. 2 illus. in color. Author Sue Thomas Publisher Springer International Publishing AG Edition Description 1st ed. 2017 Series Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment Alternative 9783319823737 DEWEY 809.9336 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131026827;

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