Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-229) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: What's Queer about Water? -- 1. Taken by Storm -- Intermezzo: Teaching Wreckage in Rising Waters -- 2. See Monkeys -Intermezzo: Reading Swift on the Planet of the Apes -- 3. Aqueous Punishment -- Intermezzo: Off with Her Head -- 4. Sacrif-Ice --Intermezzo: Freeze! -- Conclusion: Sea Monsters
Summary:
"The Queerness of Water reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental humanities. Moving from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels to Gothic novels including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jeremy Chow investigates the role that bodies of water play in reading these central texts. Chow navigates various representations and phases of water to magnify the element's furtive yet pronounced effects on narrative, theory, and identity. Water, Chow reveals, is both a participant and a stage upon which bodily violation manifests. The sea, rivers, pools, streams, and glaciers all participate in a violent decolonialism that fractures, revises, and reshapes notions of colonial masculinity emerging throughout the eighteenth century. Through an innovative series of intermezzi, Chow also traces the afterlives of eighteenth-century literature into late twentieth- and twenty-first-century film, television, and other popular media, opening up conversations regarding canon, literary criticism, pedagogy, and climate change."-- Page [4] of cover.
Series:
Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism
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