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Investigating the material imprint of water on thought itself Water Logics examines the epistemological adjustments that take place when we make water the source and medium for thinking about the world. Eschewing metaphorical readings of rivers, seas, and oceans, it brings together leading voices from across the social sciences and the humanities to argue rather for a distinct focus on materiality, engaging posthumanism, biotheory, and other cutting-edge theoretical approaches. From the Caribbean Sea to the Indian Ocean, this rich collection is inhabited by migrants, port cities, and coral reefs. It explores the fruitful potential of water for literary, anthropological, and ethical studies, bringing both cohesive transdisciplinarity and fresh comparative perspectives to hydro-criticism. Taken together, the wide range of critical interpretative practices constitutes a signal contribution to the blue humanities.

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Author:   Yasser Elhariry ,  Edwige Tamalet Talbayev ,  Matthew Brauer ,  Olivia Durand
Publisher:   University of Virginia Press
Imprint:   University of Virginia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.626kg
ISBN:  

9780813954202

ISBN 10:   0813954207
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   20 March 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Watermarks: Toward a Water Logics / yasser elhariry and Edwige Tamalet Talbayev Of Flood and Drought: Water Logics and the Shaping of Odessa and New Orleans / Olivia Irena Durand Wave Lab Logic / Stefan Helmreich The Wave as an Epistemological Challenge Today / Nathalie Roelens Thinking from Multiple Oceans: Historical and Elemental Lineages and Futures of Ocean Geography(s) / Philip Steinberg Mo[u]rning in the Mediterranean: Liquid Mortuaries and the Arts of Re-Membering / Supriya M. Nair Water Necropolitics / Edwige Tamalet Talbayev From Surveillance to Contestation: The Ebb and Flow of the Mediterranean Frontier's Aesthetic Regime. An interview with Charles Heller / Marie Sandoz and Anne-Katrin Weber, translated by Nicole Horne Coralization: Coral Materiality in Khal Torabully's Poetry / Shanaaz Mohammed Is the Sea History? The Marine Life of Recent Haitian Fiction / Martin Munro Liquid Language / Aaron Pinnix Between the Mountains and the Sea: Currents and Currency of Terrestrial Waters and Aqueous Idioms in Morocco / Matthew Brauer Towards a Romantic Hydrocommons: Victor Hugo, Humanity, and Hydrology / Bradley Stephens ""Forever Folding and Unfolding"": The Critical Depths of David Gascoyne's Poetics / Isabelle Keller-Privat Afterword: Logics of Port Cities / Brian T. Edwards Notes on Contributors Index

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Yasser Elhariry is Associate Professor of French Studies at Dartmouth College and the author of Pacifist Invasions. Edwige Tamalet Talbayev is Associate Professor of French at Tulane University, Professor Extraordinarius at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa, and the author of The Transcontinental Maghreb.

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