Water

Auteur

Ewa Macura-Nnamdi is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies (University of Silesia, Poland). Her main research interests include postcolonial anglophone literatures of Africa, refugees and migration in cinema and literature. Her work has appeared in journals such as Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, European Journal of English Studies, and Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. She is currently working on a book project provisionally titled Fictions of Water: Refugees and the Sea.

Tomasz Sikora is Head of the Department of English Literatures at the Pedagogical University of Krakow. His varied research interests include queer theory, literature and cultural studies, gothic and grotesque, biopolitics, environmental humanities, and more. He has published two books: Virtually Wild: Wilderness, Technology and the Ecology of Mediation (2003) and Bodies Out of Rule: Transversal Readings in Canadian Literature and Film (2014). He is one of the founders and editors of InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies (interalia.queerstudies.pl).

Texte du rabat

Drawing on some recent developments in the Blue Humanities, this book addresses water as a material, political and cultural phenomenon across a variety of spatial and temporal contexts. It was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

Contenu

Foreword Introduction: Water 1. Hydropower: residual dwelling between life and nonlife 2. Intercorporeity of Animated Water: contesting anthropocentric settler sovereignty 3. Just Keep Swimming? queer pooling and hydropoetics 4. A Sinking Empire 5. Social Property in The Cochabamba Water War, Bolivia 2000 6. A Timeful Theory of Knowledge: thunderstorms, dams, and the disclosure of planetary history 7. Learning Waters 8. Figurations of Water: on pathogens, purity, and contamination 9. Mère Métaphore: the maternal materiality of water in astrida neimanis's bodies of water 10. The Other Water