Fleeting, Floating, Flowing

Water Writing and Modernity. Edited by Isabel Capeloa Gil.

This volume brings together the results of an international conference held in Cascais, Portugal in November 2004, which stemmed from the research project on maritime culture "Connecting Waters: Cultural Hybridity and Dialogue in Maritime Interaction", developed at the Centre for Communication and Culture of the Catholic University of Portugal. Along the two-day conference, researchers from Europe, Africa and the US discussed the interactions between the seas and riverine milieus and the construct of modernity, debating their aesthetic dialogue, the risky tension brought about by environmental awareness, and the politics of water in the modern world. The 13 contributions to this volume, one of which is in French, are organized in two main parts. Part I, "Water Writing and Modernity", focuses on the representational and iconic power of waterways in their interaction with modernity. Moving on from literary representation, Part II, "Fluid Cultures and Poetics", then examines water writing either as a structural poetological device or as a cultural phenomenon. Contents: I. Capeloa Gil: Introduction. - M. Schmeling: 'Navigatio poetae'. L'eau inspiratrice chez les écrivains de la modernité. - H. Buescu: Water that Flows. Up and Down the River ... - M. Schmitz-Emans: Water Writing. Fluid Languages and the Voices of the Sea. - I. Lopez: Beachfront Property for the American Navy. Vieques Island in Mayra Montero’s "The Captain of Sleepers". - B. Wolf: Robinson or the 'Nomos' of the Island. - K. Joslin: Rachel Carson and the Song of the Sea. - I. Capeloa Gil: Hydrography, or the Anxiety of the Sea. The Nautical Chart as a Cultural Model. - A. Lopes: Liquid Translation. On the Portuguese (Sub)Version of Walter Scott’s "The Pirate". - O. Madany: The Sea and the Desert in Modern Egyptian Writing. - T. Bailey: Listening to the Music of the Ompompanoosuc. - T. Ferreira: The Woman and the Sea Beyond. On Sophia de Mello Breyner. - A.-M. Aly: Iris Murdoch’s "The Sea, the Sea" as a Maritime Pastiche. - J. Ferreira: The Portuguese Fishermen of Provincetown, Massachusetts. An Oral History. 218 Seiten mit 13 Abb., broschiert (Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Vergleichenden Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft; Band 40/Königshausen & Neumann 2008) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear