Shipwreck Hauntography

Underwater Ruins and the Uncanny
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6372-770-9
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800

Drawing on a broad theoretical range from speculative realism to feminist psychoanalysis and anti-colonialism, this book represents a radical departure from traditional scholarship on maritime archaeology. Shipwreck Hauntography asserts that nautical archaeology bears the legacy of Early Modern theological imperialism, most evident through the savior-scholar model that resurrects—physically or virtually—ships from wrecks. Instead of construing shipwrecks as dead, awaiting resurrection from the seafloor, this book presents them as vibrant if not recalcitrant objects, having shaken off anthropogenesis through varying stages of ruination. Sara Rich illustrates this anarchic condition with 'hauntographs' of five Age of 'Discovery' shipwrecks, each of which elucidates the wonder of failure and finitude, alongside an intimate brush with the eerie, horrific, and uncanny.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rich, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Unterwasserarchäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustration List

Preface: Hauntographies of Ordinary Shipwrecks

1. Resetting the Binary Bones

Legacy (Marigalante)

Liturgy (The Gresham Ship)

Litany (Santa Maria)

Liminality (The Nissia)

2. Broken Ship, Dead Ship

Ontology (The Yarmouth Roads)

Meontology (Holigost)

Deontology (Mary Rose)

Mereology (Argo and Ark)

3. Among the Tentative Haunters

Conversion (Terror and Erebus)

Inversion (Impregnable)

Delirium (Belle)

Desiderium (The Ribadeo)

4. Vibrant Corpses

Entropy (Nuestra Senora de los Remedios)

Negentropy (Magdalena)

Putrefaction (Sanchi)

Purification (Costa Concordia)

5. Macabre Simulacra

Exploration (Melckmeyt)

Exploitation (Thistlegorm)

Eschatology (Batavia)

Elegy (Bayonnaise)

Postface. On Underwater Seances and Punk Eulogies

Complete Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rich, Sara
Sara Rich is a maritime archaeologist, art historian, artist, and author of speculative fiction. She is currently Assistant Professor of Honors and Interdisciplinary Studies at Coastal Carolina University.