... interred within its domain for “her dust would help to compose . . . this land” (207, 211). Entitled “The Funeral,” the final chapter juxtaposes the vastness of the ocean against the containment of Black opportunity and aspiration on US soil. In it, Herndon bids the United States “an eternal farewell...

... in democracy as one between synecdoche and metonymy. The article then theorizes a new form of democratic politics through an engagement with Jacques Rancière before turning to Ocean Vuong’s “Notebook Fragments” (2016) and “Self-Portrait as Exit Wounds” (2016) as articulations of a democratic aesthetics...

...Gretchen Murphy © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Gretchen Nation, Ocean, Hemisphere, and Planet: Murphy New Geographies of American Literary Studies Hemispheric American Studies. Ed. Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers...

...Molly Wallace Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species . By Ursula K. Heise . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2016 . xiii, 280 pp. Cloth, $82.50 ; paper $27.50 ; e-book available. Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature...

...: Nineteenth-Century Sea Narratives and American Identity . By Robin Miskolcze. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2008. xxii, 220 pp. $45.00. “Whole Oceans Away”: Melville and the Pacific . Ed. Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2007. xxi, 350 pp. $65.00...

... material limitations. Many of Whitman's 1860 poems, however, also encounter a deathliness of matter (the speaker figured as a “trail of drift and debris,” for instance, in “As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life”). In his “Calamus” cluster especially, Whitman speaks as though from the margins of his own oeuvre...

...David Pham Abstract Water has held a privileged place in theorizations of Vietnamese refugee being. Drawing from Ocean Vuong’s chapbook Burnings (2010) and novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019) along with Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s film The Boat People (2020), this article traces an alternative...

... Hester . 2010 . “ The Prospect of Oceanic Studies .” PMLA 125 ( May ): 670 – 77 . Bone Martyn . 2007 . “ The (Extended) South of Black Folk: Intraregional and Transnational Migrant Labor in Jonah's Gourd Vine and Their Eyes Were Watching God .” American Literature 79 ( December...

... Romance, even oceanic boundaries seemed increasingly negligible. According to Frederick Douglass’s (1999, 205) “Fourth of July” speech that same year, “Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. From Boston to London is now a holiday excursion. Space is compara- tively annihilated...

... of telegraph cables; as if she had foreseen the difficulty” of encasing copper wire at oceanic depths. Echoing Ralph Waldo Emerson’s state- ment from his 1856 address “Works and Days” that “[n]o sooner is the electric telegraph devised, than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found,” Dowe...

... Melville’s most famous novel as a work of nature writing about the ocean. Approaching Moby-Dick as a “proto-Darwinian, proto-environmentalist masterpiece” about life at sea as well as sea-life, King follows the fictional journey of the Pequod and Melville’s own voyages to document a quintessentially...

... on the Caribbean, a region formative for many Canadian writers and important within many of the nineteenth-century novels Madera explores. It makes perfect sense that the Atlantic Ocean emerged as an emblematic epicenter for the cultural forms wrought in the wake of African slavery. Paul Gilroy’s black...

... to the emerging field of oceanic stud- ies, even as he expresses “concern” with that field’s self-definition in his epi- logue (242). Berger’s methodological commitments are to a Žižekian-inflected Lacanian analysis of fantasy, desire, and knowledge, rather than to the histor- icist approach that in his...

... repay the carbon debt it incurred as the condition of its economic ascen- dency. Not long before that, the citizens of I-­Kiribati, whose island-­ archipelago home will disappear as ocean levels rise, worked out an agreement with New Zealand to relocate to several diasporic centers...

...) What other writer [than Mark Twain] at this early date better glimpsed the role of America in Asia and in the Pacific, ocean of the future?—A. Grove Day, ‘‘Innocent Abroad...

... pence, six pence, and twelue pence, as fast as you can hale and veare a line,” since cod would sell locally “for ten shillings the hundred” or in England for “more than twentie” (47). Smith goes on to liken the cod to gold and the ocean to a mine, predicting that this “trade of fish” will allow...

... as other-than-human beings and forces. James-Perry s mound grows corn, buttressed by beans and sedge grass . The garden also includes a smattering of quahog shells to symbolize a connection to the ocean and to James-Perry s Martha s Vineyard home (Curtis 2021). As a form of writing from the earth...

... the earth’s deep-time histories are encountered and where the political ontologies of being and matter are coproduced and entangled with colonialism, race, and gender. A speculative archive of poems comprising four main elemental archives—“Dirt,” “Sky,” “Fire,” and “Ocean”—that documents the end...

... have direct sensorial experience. 8 For more information on increased greenhouse gases, ocean warming, and air quality, see Stocker ( 2014 ). 9 Chun uses this term with the help of Derrida ( 1981 , 2002 ). References Armstrong Patricia . 2013 . Interview by Veronica Dehais...

...] realize the sublime declaration of the Prophet of Patmos, ‘And there shall be no more sea.’ The oceans that divided us, have become bridges to connect us, and the wide ‘world has become a whispering gallery.’ The morning star of freedom is [today] seen from every quarter of the globe” (1999b, 105...