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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 129–139.
Published: 01 April 2019
... seafaring literature and broaden our understandings of modernism generally. By way of illustration the essay examines the British author James Hanley’s 1938 novel Hollow Sea , which centers on a merchant ship turned troopship during World War I. In its staging of maritime technologies and infrastructures...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 140–151.
Published: 01 April 2019
... shipping, threatening the maritime lifelines that held Britain’s empire together and enabled it to stand alone against the Axis. By the end of February, Britain’s imperiled sea lanes and overstrained maritime infrastructure were near collapse. 11 This crisis clearly affected Eliot—all the more so given...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 116–128.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of infrastructural finance. In all, the financing and construction of an infrastructure space like the Panama Canal Zone—a figure for maritime globalization as the spatial form of capitalism—invite us to reassemble a vision of worldwide modernism structured by disparities among destructive French speculators...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 11–20.
Published: 01 April 2019
... reminds us that this practice of leisure is underwritten by earlier histories of dispossession launched from the littoral, the bridgehead of maritime imperialism and land invasion. Cognizant of such histories, a new generation of black beachgoers shares a more somber sense of purpose. No longer...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 122–138.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of the incredible human power that builds and rebuilds the world ( C , 72). Walter Benjamin identified it as the barbarism of coerced labor and suffering that underwrites every architectural testament to civilization. 18 “Paved” with faces, De Quincey’s sea becomes a smooth, depthless surface of maritime...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 146–165.
Published: 01 April 2021
... . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 . Steinberg Philip E. “ Of Other Seas: Metaphors and Materialities in Maritime Regions .” Atlantic Studies 10 , no. 2 ( 2013 ): 156 – 69 . Stephens Michelle Ann . Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 109–132.
Published: 01 April 2021
... is likely referring to the 1925 Coloured Alien Seamen Order. The law was thought to be promulgated by the National Union of Seamen, run by white bosses, and quickly passed by members of the British Parliament in 1925 to block foreign seamen from employment. The maritime legislation contained a special order...
