Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather
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Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather

Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones

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eBook - PDF

Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather

Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones

About this book

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.


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Yes, you can access Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather by Anne Collett, Russell McDougall, Sue Thomas, Anne Collett,Russell McDougall,Sue Thomas in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Notes on Contributors
  4. List of Figures
  5. Chapter 1: Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather
  6. Chapter 2: Tropical Cyclones in Mauritian Literature
  7. Chapter 3: Pacific Revolt: The Typhoon, Japan and American Imperialism in Melville’s Moby Dick
  8. Chapter 4: Tropical Modernism in Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales
  9. Chapter 5: Through the Eye of Surplus Accumulation: Joseph Conrad’s The Nigger of the “Narcissus” and Typhoon
  10. Chapter 6: Flood, Storm and Typhoon in Tanizaki Junichirō’s The Makioka Sisters
  11. Chapter 7: Cyclones, Indigenous and Invasive, in Northern Australia
  12. Chapter 8: Salba Istorya/Salba Buhay: Save Story/Save Life: Collaborative Storying in the Wake of Typhoons
  13. Chapter 9: 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
  14. Chapter 10: Cycles and Cyclones: Structural and Cultural Displacement in Gisèle Pineau’s Macadam Dreams
  15. Chapter 11: Catastrophic History, Cyclonic Wreckage and Repair in William Gilbert’s The Hurricane and Diana McCaulay’s Huracan
  16. Chapter 12: Hurricane Story (With Special Reference to the Poetry of Olive Senior)
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index