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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Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather
Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones
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Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather
Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Figures
- Chapter 1: Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather
- Chapter 2: Tropical Cyclones in Mauritian Literature
- Chapter 3: Pacific Revolt: The Typhoon, Japan and American Imperialism in Melvilleâs Moby Dick
- Chapter 4: Tropical Modernism in Joseph Conradâs Sea Tales
- Chapter 5: Through the Eye of Surplus Accumulation: Joseph Conradâs The Nigger of the âNarcissusâ and Typhoon
- Chapter 6: Flood, Storm and Typhoon in Tanizaki JunichiroĚâs The Makioka Sisters
- Chapter 7: Cyclones, Indigenous and Invasive, in Northern Australia
- Chapter 8: Salba Istorya/Salba Buhay: Save Story/Save Life: Collaborative Storying in the Wake of Typhoons
- Chapter 9: Resistance in the Rubble: Post-San ZenĂłn Santo Domingo from RamĂłn Lugo LovatĂłnâs Escombros: HuracĂĄn del 1930 to Carlos Federico PĂŠrezâs La ciudad herida
- Chapter 10: Cycles and Cyclones: Structural and Cultural Displacement in Gisèle Pineauâs Macadam Dreams
- Chapter 11: Catastrophic History, Cyclonic Wreckage and Repair in William Gilbertâs The Hurricane and Diana McCaulayâs Huracan
- Chapter 12: Hurricane Story (With Special Reference to the Poetry of Olive Senior)
- Bibliography
- Index
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