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Beaches and Ports

Beaches and Ports This introduction theorizes the littoral zone as a space for rethinking comparative literature and the environmental humanities. Beaches and ports are among the twentieth century’s most vexed and polyvalent cultural geographies. The article contends that the tidelands should be approached as a representational and geophysical overlap, an amalgamation of industry, biology, text, and image. Beaches and ports are ecological and industrial force fields: spaces of prohibition and pleasure, labor and play, exposure and refuge. They are the staging grounds and terraformed dreamscapes of carbon-based capitalism—but they are also potential commons in which different rhythms of existence come into view. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

Beaches and Ports

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0010-4124
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Abstract

This introduction theorizes the littoral zone as a space for rethinking comparative literature and the environmental humanities. Beaches and ports are among the twentieth century’s most vexed and polyvalent cultural geographies. The article contends that the tidelands should be approached as a representational and geophysical overlap, an amalgamation of industry, biology, text, and image. Beaches and ports are ecological and industrial force fields: spaces of prohibition and pleasure, labor and play, exposure and refuge. They are the staging grounds and terraformed dreamscapes of carbon-based capitalism—but they are also potential commons in which different rhythms of existence come into view.

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Comparative Literature – Duke University Press

Published: Jun 1, 2021

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    Taussig, Michael
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    Tickner, Lisa
  • Recent Trends in Maritime and Port History
    Williams, David M. Loyen, Reginald Buyst, Erik Devos, Greta
  • Hydro-criticism
    Winkiel, Laura
  • Editor’s Column: Sea Trash, Dark Pools, and the Tragedy of the Commons
    Yaeger, Patricia
  • Sur la plage
    Barthes, Roland
  • Moving Cargos
    Birtchnell, Thomas Savitzky, Satya Urry, John Birtchnell, Thomas Savitzky, Satya Urry, John
  • Internationalizing the Public Trust Doctrine: Natural Law and Constitutional and Statutory Approaches to Fulfilling the Saxion Vision
    Blumm, Michael C. Guthrie, Rachel D.
  • Seashore Law: The Core of French Public Maritime Law
    Bordereaux, Laurent
  • Oceanic Routes
    Bystrom, Kerry Hofmeyr, Isabel
  • Alvin Baltrop: Pier Photographs, 1975–1986
    Crimp, Douglas
  • Paris-Plage: Célébrer un objet absent
    de la Pradelle, Michèle Lallement, Emmanuelle Debary, Octave Turgeon, Laurier
  • Thinking Small: Close Reading as Ecological Thought
    Freed-Thall, Hannah James, David
  • Modernist Setting
    Freed-Thall, Hannah Zhang, Dora
  • The Tragedy of the Commons
    Hardin, Garrett
  • The Rise and Decline of a Revolutionary Space: Paris’s Place de Grève and the Stonemasons of Creuse, 1750–1900
    Harison, Casey
  • Beyond the Shadow of the Veil: Claude Monet’s The Beach at Trouville
    Kessler, Marni Brevik-Zender, Heidi
  • The Fantasy of Access: Neoliberal Ordering of a Public Beach
    Keul, Adam
  • Ephemeral Utopias: Queer Cruising, Literary Form, and Diasporic Imagination in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Banjo
    Newman, Eric H.
  • Oceanic Studies: Theories and Methodologies
  • Afterword: The Last Universal Commons
    Price, Rachel
  • Liverpool and the English Slave Trade
    Richardson, David Tribbles, Anthony
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    Sekula, Allan Burch, Noël
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  • The Beach: A Fantasy
    Taussig, Michael
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    Tickner, Lisa
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    Williams, David M. Loyen, Reginald Buyst, Erik Devos, Greta
  • Hydro-criticism
    Winkiel, Laura
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    Yaeger, Patricia