This editorial introduces the special issue, ‘World Literature and the Blue Humanities’. The authors articulate the commonalities and tensions between world literature, world-ecology, blue humanities, and hydrocultural approaches. Taking megadams, water pollution, and the blue revolution as baselines, we offer short analyses of works by Namwali Serpell, Craig Santos Perez, Jean Arasanayagam, Paul Greengrass, Will Menmuir, and Emily St. John Mandel in order to articulate how culture can both contest and normalize water enclosure. The piece ends with a brief summary of the contributions to the special issue.
This article offers a series of readings of poets from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean whose works respectively make visible the otherwise invisible and offshore narratives of marine waste that currently circulate within the world's oceans. Through a comparative archipelagic reading of Scottish and Caribbean poets this article examines the different forms of cultural and material exchange that proliferate through the 'heavy waters' (DeLoughrey 2010) of the Atlantic. From stones and bones to plastic dolls and rubber ducks, the poetic encounters with marine waste in the works of Édouard
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