Anais Maurer

The Ocean on Fire

Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists

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Produktbeschreibung

Anaàs Maurer foregrounds Pacific literature as a key archive for surviving and thriving in an environment in which Indigenous inhabitants have been bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9781478030041
• ISBN-10: 1478030046
• Artikelnr.: 68325654

Autorenporträt

Anaïs Maurer is Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xi
Note on Language  xv
Introduction. “We Are Not Drowning—We Are Fighting”  1
1. Isletism: The Latest Stage of Orientalism
2. Oceanitude: A Philosophy for the Anthropocene
3. Atomic Animals: The Hidden Face of the Sixth Mass Extinction
4. The H-Bomb and Humor: The Arts of Laughing at Death and Diseases
5. Radiation Refugees: Rethinking the Age of Mass Migration
Conclusion. “With Our Hearts Broken and Our Eyes Peeled for Beauty”
Notes
Bibliography
Index