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Tempestuous Life: Ralegh's Ocean in Ruins
- Author(s):
- Steven Swarbrick (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
- Subject(s):
- Biopolitics, Culture--Study and teaching, Atlantic Ocean Region, Ecocriticism, Travel writing, Oceania, Area studies
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Transatlantic cultural studies, Travel literature, Oceanic studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/4jcj-nh22
- Abstract:
- Turning to Walter Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana (1596) and The History of the World (1614), I reframe such biopolitical factors as Ralegh’s “dissability” around a concept that has less to do with human world-making and more to do with the “states of exception” (Giorgio Agamben) under which inhuman agencies come to matter for world history (often by disabling human epistemologies). I read Ralegh’s “tempestuous life” as a figure for the agency, relationality, and transcorporeality of the sea.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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