Reading for water : materiality and method /: materiality and method. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery, Sarah Nuttall.
• Editors: Hofmeyr, Isabel; Lavery, Charne, 1984-; Nuttall, Sarah
• Contents: Introduction: Reading for Water Isabel Hofmeyr, Sarah Nuttall and Charne Lavery 1. On Pluviality: Reading for Rain in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift Sarah Nuttall 2. Hydrocolonial Johannesburg Louise Bethlehem 3. Postcolonial Plumbing: Reading for Wastewater in Antjie Krog’s A Change of Tongue Charne Lavery 4. Shadow of a Drought: Notes from Cape Town’s Water Crisis Hedley Twidle 5. A Mermaid in a Dry City: A Watery Reading of Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning Confidence Joseph 6. Words on Black Water: Setting South African "Plantation Literature" Afloat on the Kala Pani Nafisa Essop Sheik 7. Dark Water: Rustum Kozain’s This Carting Life (2005) Simon Van Schalkwyk 8. "Does the Water Repeat?" Reading Caribbean-South African Contemporary Fiction Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi 9. Is the Anthropocene Conniving with Capital? Water Priva(tisa)tion and Ontology Reimagined in Karen Jayes’ For the Mercy of Water Philip Aghoghovwia 10. Shipwreck and Psychosis: Sheila Fugard’s The Castaways Michael Titlestad 11. Anomalous, Containerized and Inundating Waters: Thinking from the Cape and through Blue Focalization with K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents Meg Samuelson
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (180 pages)
• Subjects: 809.9336; Water in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000937138
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