Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-05708-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. Introducing the central conceptual category of ocean as method, it analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, folklore, local histories, autobiographies, music and performance. It explores the constant flow of people, material and ideologies across the waters and how they make their presence felt in a cosmopolitan thinking of the connections of the world. Going beyond violent histories of slavery and indenture that generate global connections, it tracks the movements of sailors, boatmen, religious teachers, merchants, and adventurers.

The essays in this volume summon up this miscegenated history in which land and water are ever linked. A significant rethinking of world history, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, especially connected history and maritime history, literature, and Global South studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Menon, Dilip M

Zaidi, Nishat

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Contributors



Introduction

Nishat Zaidi and Dilip Menon



Section I: The Poetics of Fluvial Cosmopolitanism



1. Going Below the Waterline: Hydrocolonial Methods, Creolized Water

Isabel Hofmeyr



2.Fellowship and Aversion in the South: The Challenges of South-South Collaboration

Elleke Boehmer



3. Found in Prison: The Poetics of Oceanic Histories

Geeta Patel



4. Remembering the Bengal Delta: ca. 1450-1850

Rila Mukherjee



5. “The wind sketches landscapes of words”: Oceanic poetics in the Horn of Africa and western Indian Ocean”

Kelsey McFaul



Section II: Oceanic Narratives



6. Padmabati of the Oceans: Unfreedom and Belonging in Syed Alaol’s Padmabati

Swati Moitra



7. Senses Translated: Pa?appa??us in the Indian Ocean, Circulation of Texts and Sounds across Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit Cosmopoleis

Ihsan Ul Ihthisam



Section III: Constructing Space



8. Of Those on Shore: The Dhow Trade and Mobility in the Indian Ocean

Nidhi Mahajan



9. Towards an Architecture of the Indian Ocean: Mapping the Syncretic Grammar of Coastal Cities & Architecture through Ibn Battuta’s Water Journeys (1342-1347)

Iqtedar Alam



10. Through the Eyes of the Boat People: Redefining Oceans in the 21st century

Chrisalice Ela Joseph and Vinod Balakrishnan



Section IV: Religion, Knowledge and Law Across the Oceans



11. Literate Illiterates: Arabi-Malayalam and Parallel Process of Knowledge Production among Muslims in Kerala

M.H.Ilias.



12. ?Ulama? Networks across the Seas: Understanding the Trajectory of Islam in Medieval Malabar

Mohammed Shameem K. K.



13. Encountering the ‘Other: Pilgrims at Sea and Accounts of Journeys to Hejaz in the Age of Oceanic Mobility

Muhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil



14. Christianity, Conversion and Caste: Reflecting on Identity in Dalit Christian Malayalam Writings in Post-Colonial India

Steven S. George



15. Rainbow Waters: Towards a Queer Coalition between India and Botswana

Kashish Dua



Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dilip M. Menon is a historian and currently the Mellon Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand. South Africa.

Nishat Zaidi is Professor and former Head, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.