Reading for Water. Issue 3 (3rd April 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hofmeyr, Isabel; Nuttall, Sarah; Lavery, Charne
• Is Part Of: Interventions. Volume 24:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 303
• Page End: 322
• Publication Date: 2022-04-03
• Subjects: Going below the waterline -- hydro-infrastructures -- hydrocolonialism -- multi-spirited waters -- reading for water; Postcolonialism -- Periodicals; 325.3
• DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2021.2015711
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1369-801X

Abstract

Abstract : This introduction provides a wide-ranging framing for a set of essays that explores the topic "Reading for Water" in southern African literature. The introduction begins by demonstrating this method through snapshots of three seminal South African novels: Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat (2006), A. C. Jordan's The Wrath of the Ancestors (1980) and J. M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K (1983). This is followed by a discussion of Sarah Nuttall's essay on Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift, which establishes the framework for the essays that follow. These are discussed under four sections: Hydro-infrastructures, Multi-spirited Water, Bodies of Water and Wet Ontologies, and New Genealogies, New Chronotopes.