
Gothic in the Oceanic South
Maritime, Marine and Aquatic Uncanny in Southern Waters
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 6. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
214 pages
978-1-032-25324-4 (ISBN)
Description
This dynamic multidisciplinary collection of essays examines the uncanny, eerie, wondrous, and dreaded dimensions of oceans, seas, waterways, and watery forms of the oceanic South, a haunted global precinct stretching across the Pacific, Southern and Indian Oceans, and around Australasia, Oceania, Aotearoa New Zealand, and South Africa.
Presenting work from leading scholars, the chapters contend with the contemporary fears and repressions associated with the return of environmental traumas, colonial traumas, and the spectres of the precolonial deep past that resurface in the present. The book examines the manifestations of these Gothic aesthetics and propensities across a range of watery spaces - seas, oceans, waterholes, and swamps - in vessels, ports, shorelines, journeys, strandings, and transformations, in amphibious bodies and the drowned, all of which promote haunted engagement with the materiality of water. This collection renews the interdisciplinary breadth of Gothic criticism and the relevance of Gothic affect and sensibility to understanding the histories and cultures of the oceanic South through an exploration of the rarely considered uncanniness of the oceans, waterways, and aqueous forms of the Southern Hemisphere, haunted by colonial and precolonial imaginings of the Antipodes, the legacies of imperialism, and the "double vision" between Oceanic and settler-colonial epistemologies, and the encroaching menace of climate change. Comprising diverse contributions from screen, literary, and cultural studies, environmental humanities, human geography, and creative practice in ecological sound art, and poetry, the collection examines the uncanny and the sublime in watery fictions and authentic settings of a range of aqueous southern forms - ocean surfaces and depths, haunted shallows and reefs, moist mangroves, moss and lichen, the awesome horror of tidal apocalypse.
This book will be illuminating reading for students and scholars of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, area studies, and Indigenous studies.
Presenting work from leading scholars, the chapters contend with the contemporary fears and repressions associated with the return of environmental traumas, colonial traumas, and the spectres of the precolonial deep past that resurface in the present. The book examines the manifestations of these Gothic aesthetics and propensities across a range of watery spaces - seas, oceans, waterholes, and swamps - in vessels, ports, shorelines, journeys, strandings, and transformations, in amphibious bodies and the drowned, all of which promote haunted engagement with the materiality of water. This collection renews the interdisciplinary breadth of Gothic criticism and the relevance of Gothic affect and sensibility to understanding the histories and cultures of the oceanic South through an exploration of the rarely considered uncanniness of the oceans, waterways, and aqueous forms of the Southern Hemisphere, haunted by colonial and precolonial imaginings of the Antipodes, the legacies of imperialism, and the "double vision" between Oceanic and settler-colonial epistemologies, and the encroaching menace of climate change. Comprising diverse contributions from screen, literary, and cultural studies, environmental humanities, human geography, and creative practice in ecological sound art, and poetry, the collection examines the uncanny and the sublime in watery fictions and authentic settings of a range of aqueous southern forms - ocean surfaces and depths, haunted shallows and reefs, moist mangroves, moss and lichen, the awesome horror of tidal apocalypse.
This book will be illuminating reading for students and scholars of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, area studies, and Indigenous studies.
Reviews / Votes
"This book represents a unique combination of informed, illuminating and highly original research, reflecting, condensing and provoking a range of timely cultural, aesthetic and environmental debates. Truly a trove of sunken treasures."- Jonathan Rayner, Professor of Film Studies, University of SheffieldMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
12 farbige Abbildungen, 12 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder
12 Halftones, color; 12 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
351 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-25324-4 (9781032253244)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Allison Craven | Diana Sandars
Gothic in the Oceanic South
Maritime, Marine and Aquatic Uncanny in Southern Waters
E-Book
12/2023
1st Edition
Taylor & Francis
€60.99
Available for download

Allison Craven | Diana Sandars
Gothic in the Oceanic South
Maritime, Marine and Aquatic Uncanny in Southern Waters
E-Book
12/2023
1st Edition
Taylor & Francis
€60.99
Available for download

Allison Craven | Diana Sandars
Gothic in the Oceanic South
Maritime, Marine and Aquatic Uncanny in Southern Waters
Book
12/2023
1st Edition
Routledge
€206.30
Shipment within 10-20 days
Persons
Allison Craven is Associate Professor of English and Screen Studies at James Cook University, Australia, where she teaches children's literature and Gothic fiction. Her research is on global fairy tale and Gothic narrative, and on Australian cinema, and Australian Gothic in literature and film. She is the author of Fairy Tale Interrupted, Feminisms, Masculinities and Wonder Cinema (2017), and Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema: Poetics and Screen Geographies (2016), and her most recent book is the anthology Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality (co-edited with Jessica Balanzategui, 2023). She is an editor of Anthem's Film and Culture series.
Diana Sandars is an academic in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia, with a teaching specialty in screen, cultural, and Indigenous Studies. Diana has a research focus on the child in, and subject of, screen media and has written on the children of Australian and Hollywood screens. She is a member of the editorial board for Anthem Studies in Writers and Films series, and the author of What a Feeling: The Hollywood Musical After MTV (forthcoming 2024) and co-author of Netflix and the Dark Fantasy of Intergenerational Viewing, Routledge, 2023.
Diana Sandars is an academic in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia, with a teaching specialty in screen, cultural, and Indigenous Studies. Diana has a research focus on the child in, and subject of, screen media and has written on the children of Australian and Hollywood screens. She is a member of the editorial board for Anthem Studies in Writers and Films series, and the author of What a Feeling: The Hollywood Musical After MTV (forthcoming 2024) and co-author of Netflix and the Dark Fantasy of Intergenerational Viewing, Routledge, 2023.
Editor
James Cook University, Australia
University of Melbourne, Australia
Content
Introduction-Gothic Tides in the Oceanic South: Uncanny Contradictions and Compulsions 1. Knowing the Uncanny Ocean 2 "Come in, the Water's Fine": The Drowning World of Peter Weir's The Last Wave (1977) 3. The Other Alongside: Suburban Mangroves and the Postcolonial Swampy Gothic 4. Acidification, Annihilation, Extinction: Exploring Environmental Crisis on the Great Barrier Reef through Collaborative Ecological Sound Art 5. Hydrocolonial Gothic: Robert Louis Stevenson and Makhanda - A Tale of Northern and Southern Seas 6. Multispecies and Multispirited Seas: Submersion and the Gothic in Two South African Fictions 7. The Aquatic Kiwi Gothic: Isolation, Insanity and the Occasional Fisherman 8. Northern Rivers Gothic, Ballina: A Seacoast Suite on Sharks, Shipwrecks, and the Sea 9. On Mermaids, Disgust and the Gothic Sublime 10 Wayfinding and Finding a Way to Intercultural Storytelling in Moana: Charting Disney's Gothic in an Oceanic Creation Story 11. Vampire Hydrology and Coastal Australian Cinema: Saturation, Sunlight, and Amphibious Beings