The View from the Sea: The Power of a Blue Comparative Literature

The View from the Sea: The Power of a Blue Comparative Literature

This paper advocates for a blue comparative literature that uses the view from the sea to provide new axes for comparison. Roy Jacobsen’s <i>De usynlige</i> (<i>The Unseen</i>, 2013) and Sarah Moss’s <i>Night Waking</i> (2011) explore subsistence lives on small is...

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Main Author: Katie Ritson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-07-01
Series:Humanities
Subjects:
blue humanities
comparative literature
Roy Jacobsen
Sarah Moss
scandinavian literature
anthropocene
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/3/68
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spelling doaj-3ce35623d67d46e3a330469c29686e9e2020-11-25T03:02:07ZengMDPI AGHumanities2076-07872020-07-019686810.3390/h9030068The View from the Sea: The Power of a Blue Comparative LiteratureKatie Ritson0Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, D-80802 Munich, GermanyThis paper advocates for a blue comparative literature that uses the view from the sea to provide new axes for comparison. Roy Jacobsen’s <i>De usynlige</i> (<i>The Unseen</i>, 2013) and Sarah Moss’s <i>Night Waking</i> (2011) explore subsistence lives on small islands in the northern Atlantic at different moments in the past, when inhabitants were dependent on the sea for food and transport. By looking at them together, as texts linked by their engagement with the physical world of the northern Atlantic, the two novels show how marginal populations on small islands can represent a space for the imagination of the human past and future in the Anthropocene.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/3/68blue humanitiescomparative literatureRoy JacobsenSarah Mossscandinavian literatureanthropocene
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blue humanities
comparative literature
Roy Jacobsen
Sarah Moss
scandinavian literature
anthropocene
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title_full The View from the Sea: The Power of a Blue Comparative Literature
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description This paper advocates for a blue comparative literature that uses the view from the sea to provide new axes for comparison. Roy Jacobsen’s <i>De usynlige</i> (<i>The Unseen</i>, 2013) and Sarah Moss’s <i>Night Waking</i> (2011) explore subsistence lives on small islands in the northern Atlantic at different moments in the past, when inhabitants were dependent on the sea for food and transport. By looking at them together, as texts linked by their engagement with the physical world of the northern Atlantic, the two novels show how marginal populations on small islands can represent a space for the imagination of the human past and future in the Anthropocene.
topic blue humanities
comparative literature
Roy Jacobsen
Sarah Moss
scandinavian literature
anthropocene
url https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/3/68
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