... African and Indian diasporas shipwreck South Africa But the sea evidently contains material other than what has already been used. Where can it come from, in order to give courage to the ones who are beginning anew? Perhaps from earlier shipwrecks? —Hans Blumenberg, Shipwreck with Spectator...

.... It was the sinking of five boats in close proximity in April 2015, two of them leading to large-scale loss of life, that first precipitated the declaration of crisis. 1 However, if these catastrophic shipwrecks and the dangerous conditions faced by those journeying across the Mediterranean were pivotal...

... of community.’ It exposes the ‘numbing rituals of colonial and post- Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of Empire colonial indifference’ with a light touch, pausing on A new take on the famous...

.... This displacement is given precise formulation in the plot that occu- pies the animal version of Pi’s tale, much of which is given over to the training of the tiger, named Richard Parker. After rescuing Richard Parker from the shipwreck in a fit of cross-­species...

... a fair specimen of the negroid type when I had done him.” 57 Confronted with these frighteningly beastly humanoid creatures, the shipwrecked narrator, Edward Prendick, repeatedly wonders what “race” of human savages they might be. Within European-authored ontologies of species and race, an animalized...

... ( Cahill, “Plurality,” 15, 20n 43; Marchessault, Ecstatic Worlds , 82 ; Soulez, “Malle” ). 36. Al Abed et al., “Chronicle.” 35. The empty barrel is shown being lowered into a skiff, ostensibly to mark the site of the shipwreck explored in this long sequence of the film. The invocation...

... — ­a vision a la Jules Verne, positivism, evolutionism. But at the same time they invented the railway catastrophe. The invention of the boat was the invention of shipwrecks. The invention of the steam engine...

... their missions depicted similar scenes. After a harrowing journey from East Africa to Luanda after a shipwreck, for instance, Jerónomio Lobo was able to find space to travel to Bahia aboard a slave ship. In contrast to the detailed narrative of exposure to storms and lack of food and water as they rounded Cape...

... monitoring techniques to locate the exact maritime position of potential or actual shipwrecks, the activists notify border policing authorities in Europe to demand that they take action to rescue and disembark the migrants. In this manner, their strategy has sought to appropriate and repurpose...