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Thalassological Worldmaking and Literary Circularities in the Indian Ocean

Thalassological Worldmaking and Literary Circularities in the Indian Ocean Although the study of Indian Ocean literary circularities is a relatively new and dynamic field, it calls for alternative paradigms for global literary history in light of the nascent conversation between comparative world literature and oceanic studies. Following the creative work of prominent writers of the Indian Ocean (including Abdulrazak Gurnah, the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature), the concept of literary circularities is anchored in the study of multiple intersecting and networked sites of exchange, circulation, migration, and encounter in this vast oceanic space that has mediated a dynamic cross-cultural traffic across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. In response to the territorial logic of old and new comparative literature, the polysemic nature of the Indian Ocean invites the following the question: what would world literature look like when terracentric biases of the field are unsettled? In other words, how does the thalassological poetics of the Indian Ocean also remap approaches to literary categories themselves? The Indian Ocean’s literary waves and the generic wateriness they create offer a set of analytical categories as they rescale narrative as a living, moving, recombining, recycling practice of memory, connection, and connectivity. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

Thalassological Worldmaking and Literary Circularities in the Indian Ocean

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Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon
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0010-4124
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10.1215/00104124-9594787
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Abstract

Although the study of Indian Ocean literary circularities is a relatively new and dynamic field, it calls for alternative paradigms for global literary history in light of the nascent conversation between comparative world literature and oceanic studies. Following the creative work of prominent writers of the Indian Ocean (including Abdulrazak Gurnah, the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature), the concept of literary circularities is anchored in the study of multiple intersecting and networked sites of exchange, circulation, migration, and encounter in this vast oceanic space that has mediated a dynamic cross-cultural traffic across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. In response to the territorial logic of old and new comparative literature, the polysemic nature of the Indian Ocean invites the following the question: what would world literature look like when terracentric biases of the field are unsettled? In other words, how does the thalassological poetics of the Indian Ocean also remap approaches to literary categories themselves? The Indian Ocean’s literary waves and the generic wateriness they create offer a set of analytical categories as they rescale narrative as a living, moving, recombining, recycling practice of memory, connection, and connectivity.

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Comparative Literature – Duke University Press

Published: Jun 1, 2022

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    Aravamudan, Srinivas
  • Oceanic Routes: (Post-It) Notes on Hydro-colonialism
    Bystrom, Kerry Hofmeyr, Isabel
  • Universalism and Belonging in the Logic of Capital
    Chakrabarty, Dipesh
  • Africa Extraction, Indian Ocean Critique
    Chari, Sharad
  • The Waves of Heterotopia: Toward a Vernacular Intellectual History of the Indian Ocean
    Green, Nile
  • Monsoon Fever
    Gupta, Pamila
  • A Discussion on By the Sea, with Abdulrazak Gurnah
    Gurnah, Abdulrazak
  • Indian Ocean Lives and Letters
    Hofmeyr, Isabel
  • Cosmopolitan or Creole Lives? Globalized Oceans and Insular Identities
    Lionnet, Françoise
  • Literary Routes: Migration, Islands, and the Creative Economy
    Lionnet, Françoise Jean-François, Emmanuel Bruno
  • Unmoored: On Oceanic Objects in Coastal Eastern Africa, circa 1700–1900
    Meier, Prita
  • The Indian Ocean Novel
    Poddar, Prem Tickell, Alex
  • The Ends of the Indian Ocean: Notes on Boundaries and Affinities across Time
    Prestholdt, Jeremy Srinivas, Smriti Ng’weno, Bettina Jeychandran, Neelima
  • Islamic Literary Networks in South and Southeast Asia
    Ricci, Ronit
  • World Studies and Relational Comparison
    Shih, Shu-Mei
  • Moorings: Indian Ocean Creolizations
    Vergès, Françoise Marimoutou, Carapin
  • Poetic Links across the Ocean: On Poetic Translation as Mimetic Practice at the Swahili Coast
    Vierke, Clarissa
  • Indian Ocean Studies and the ‘New Thalassology.’
    Vink, Markus P. M.