Blue Humanities. LWU Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht

neue Folge 2/2025

Hanna Masslich, Caroline Rosenthale

• Publisher: Königshausen u. Neumann
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9783826095245
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

THE BLUE HUMANITIES is a transdisciplinary scholarly current that reflects, rethinks, and reimagines human-water-relationships amidst planetary water crises. It arises from literary and cultural theory as well as from literary studies and other artistic practices to forge a new water consciousness and water literacy. This volume not only introduces readers to an array of critical discourses on water but also presents ideas for implementing approaches and methods of the blue humanities into teaching contexts. The articles explore a broad range of cultural production, including literary fiction, poetry, film, creative nonfiction, the podcast medium, and picture books.

Table of contents

• Frontmatter
• Caroline Rosenthal, Hanna Masslich Blue Humanities: Introduction
• Ruth Gehrmann and Mita Banjeree Liquid Lessons: Teaching Avatar: The Way of Waterin the Context of the Blue Humanities
• Paula von Gleich Salt Water as Subject: Studying and Teaching Disney’s Moana (2016)
• Alexandra Ganser Saltwater, Freshwater, and Maritime Flight in J. Joaquín Fraxedas’s The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera (1993) and Sharon Bala’s The Boat People (2018)
• Florian Wagner “It’s Certainly not the Ocean’s Fault”: Oceanic and Aquatic Onto-Epistemologies in the Poetry of Kaie Kellough and Junie Désil
• Hanna Masslich Toward a Hydro-Regionalism: Poetry and the Colorado River Crisis in the Podcast As She Rises
• Caroline Rosenthal Learning with Water: Rivers and Rivering in and Beyond the Classroom
• Amanda Halter Drawing Water Back: Indigenous Picturebooks and the Global Teaching of Decolonization
• Backmatter