Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600–Present: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600-Present

__Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600-Present__ explores the relationship between the sea and culture from the early modern period to the present. The collection uses the concept of the ‘sea narrative’ as a lens through which to consider the multiple ways in which the sea has shaped, challenged, and expanded modes of cultural representation to produce varied, contested and provocative chronicles of the sea across a variety of cultural forms within diverse socio-cultural moments. __Sea Narratives__ provides a unique perspective on the relationship between the sea and cultural production: it reveals the sea to be more than simply a source of creative inspiration, instead showing how the sea has had a demonstrable effect on new modes and forms of narration across the cultural sphere, and in turn, how these forms have been essential in shaping socio-cultural understandings of the sea. The result is an incisive exploration of the sea’s force as a cultural presence. Acknowledgements 6 Contents 8 Notes on Contributors 10 List of Figures 14 Chapter 1: Introduction: The Literature, History and Culture of the Sea, 1600–Present 15 What Is a Sea Narrative? Cultural Production and the Sea 18 Transnational Sea Spaces 27 Bibliography 33 Chapter 2: A Need to Narrate? Early Modern French Accounts of Atlantic Crossings 36 Mapping Human Displacement 43 The Ocean Text and the Circulation of Narrative 46 Human Agency and the Ocean 50 Conclusion 56 Bibliography 57 Chapter 3: ‘A Sea of Stories’: Maritime Imagery and Imagination in Napoleonic Narratives of War Captivity 59 An Environmental Divestment 61 A Sea-Girt Audience 64 Inland Islands 67 The Trials of the Sea 72 Marine Crafts 75 Shores of Homecoming: Seeing the Channel 81 Conclusion 86 Bibliography 88 Chapter 4: ‘Through Dustless Tracks’ for African Rights: Narrative Currents and Political Imaginaries of Solomon Plaatje’s 1914 Sea Voyage 92 Introduction: Out to Sea About the Land 92 Agitation by Travel and Publication 97 Buoyant? Writing the Sea and the Ship 100 Questions of Mastery 107 An Interconnected ‘World Empire’ 114 Conclusion: Hard Realities, Mobile Possibilities 116 Bibliography 119 Chapter 5: ‘From Icy Backwater to Nuclear Waste Ground’: The Russian Arctic Ocean in the Twentieth Century 122 Introduction 122 The Technological Opening of the Arctic Ocean During the Geopolitical Turmoil of World War I, the Revolution, and Civil War 126 For Stalin’s and the Soviet Union’s Glory: The Northeast Passage as a Wonder of Socialist Technology 128 Toward a ‘New Land’: Novaya Zemlya Enters the Nuclear Age 137 Conclusion 144 Bibliography 145 Chapter 6: Shores of History, Islands of Ireland: Chronotopes of the Sea in the Contemporary Irish Novel 149 Ireland, Literature and the Sea: A Short Introduction 149 The Chronotopes of the Sea and Irish Fiction: A Critical Framework 151 ‘Shore Encounters’: Shorelines, Islands, Family Ties and Generational Conflicts in The Heather Blazing and Sunrise with Sea Monster 155 Shores of Memory, Trauma and the Creative Mind: A Goat’s Song, Grace Notes and The Sea 162 Seafaring History: The Heterotopia of the Ship in the Neo-Historical Irish Novel: Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea 171 Bibliography 178 Chapter 7: Women at Sea: Locating and Escaping Gender on the Cornish Coast in Daphne du Maurier’s The Loving Spirit and Frenchman’s Creek 180 Introduction 180 The Cornish Coastal Site 182 Land of the Free? 186 Frenchman’s Creek 191 The Loving Spirit 195 Bibliography 200 Chapter 8: Travelling Across Worlds and Texts in A. S. Byatt’s Sea Narratives 203 Empire Against Odysseus: William Adamson and Captain Papagay 206 Literature and Memory as Mediums in ‘The Conjugial Angel’ 213 The Vertiginous Closing of the Circle: The Biographer’s Tale 215 Conclusion 221 Bibliography 223 Chapter 9: Unveiling the Anthropo(s)cene: Burning Seas, Cinema of Mourning and the Globalisation of Apocalypse 225 The Film in Which the Sea Catches Fire 228 Beyond the Clichés 233 Yugant as Cinema of the Sea 239 From Globalisation to the Anthropocene 241 Bibliography 244 Film Bibliography 245 Chapter 10: The Tolerant Coast 247 Coastal Exceptionalism in Kahanoff’s ‘A Generation of Levantines’ 252 California Global: Coastal Exceptionalism in the Silicon Valley Narrative 257 Conclusion 264 Bibliography 266 Index 269 Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Introduction: The Literature, History And Culture Of The Sea, 1600 -- Present / Charlotte Mathieson -- 2. A Need To Narrate? Early Modern French Accounts Of Atlantic Crossings / Michael Harrigan -- 3. `a Sea Of Stories': Maritime Imagery And Imagination In Napoleonic Narratives Of War Captivity / Elodie Duche -- 4. `through Dustless Tracks' For African Rights: Narrative Currents And Political Imaginaries Of Solomon Plaatje's 1914 Sea Voyage / Janet Remmington -- 5. `from Icy Backwater To Nuclear Waste Ground': The Russian Arctic Ocean In The Twentieth Century / Eva-maria Stolberg -- 6. Shores Of History, Islands Of Ireland: Chronotopes Of The Sea In The Contemporary Irish Novel / Roberta Gefter Wondrich -- 7. Women At Sea: Locating And Escaping Gender On The Cornish Coast In Daphne Du Maurier's The Loving Spirit And Frenchman's Creek / Gemma Goodman -- 8. Travelling Across Worlds And Texts In A. S. Byatt's Sea Narratives / Barbara Franchi -- 9. Unveiling The Anthropo(s)cene: Burning Seas, Cinema Of Mourning And The Globalisation Of Apocalypse / Sayandeb Chowdhury -- 10. The Tolerant Coast / Isaac Land. Charlotte Mathieson, Editor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction: The Literature, History and Culture of the Sea, 1600–Present....Pages 1-21 A Need to Narrate? Early Modern French Accounts of Atlantic Crossings....Pages 23-45 ‘A Sea of Stories’: Maritime Imagery and Imagination in Napoleonic Narratives of War Captivity....Pages 47-79 ‘Through Dustless Tracks’ for African Rights: Narrative Currents and Political Imaginaries of Solomon Plaatje’s 1914 Sea Voyage....Pages 81-110 ‘From Icy Backwater to Nuclear Waste Ground’: The Russian Arctic Ocean in the Twentieth Century....Pages 111-137 Shores of History, Islands of Ireland: Chronotopes of the Sea in the Contemporary Irish Novel....Pages 139-169 Women at Sea: Locating and Escaping Gender on the Cornish Coast in Daphne du Maurier’s The Loving Spirit and Frenchman’s Creek ....Pages 171-193 Travelling Across Worlds and Texts in A. S. Byatt’s Sea Narratives....Pages 195-216 Unveiling the Anthropo(s)cene: Burning Seas, Cinema of Mourning and the Globalisation of Apocalypse....Pages 217-238 The Tolerant Coast....Pages 239-260 Back Matter....Pages 261-270