The Blue Cultural Fix: Water-Spirits and World-Ecology in Jorge Amado’s <i>Mar Morto</i> and Pepetela’s <i>O Desejo de Kianda</i>

Putting Blue Humanities scholarship in critical dialogue with recent research on the ‘cultural fix’ and ‘fixed-labour-power’, this article offers a comparative reading of two Portuguese-language novels in which the figure of the female water-spirit features as an index for two contrasting modes of k...

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Main Author: Thomas Waller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-08-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/3/72