The ocean on fire : Pacific stories from nuclear survivors and climate activists / Anaïs Maurer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maurer, Anaïs, 1989- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pacific Island literature--History and criticism.

Pacific Island literature.

Pacific Island literature--Themes, motives.

Nuclear energy in literature.

Ecocriticism in literature.

Climatic changes in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Other Title:

Pacific stories from nuclear survivors and climate activists

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century, Pacific people have long been subjected to man-made cataclysm. Well before climate change became a global concern, nuclear testing brought about untimely death, widespread diseases, forced migration, and irreparable destruction to the shores of Oceania. In The Ocean on Fire, Anaïs Maurer analyzes the Pacific literature that incriminates the environmental racism behind radioactive skies and rising seas. Maurer identifies strategies of resistance uniting the region by analyzing an extensive multilingual archive of decolonial Pacific art in French, Spanish, English, Tahitian, and Uvean, ranging from literature to songs and paintings. She shows how Pacific nuclear survivors' stories reveal an alternative vision of the apocalypse: instead of promoting individualism and survivalism, they advocate mutual assistance, cultural resilience, South-South solidarities, and Indigenous women's leadership. Drawing upon their experience resisting both nuclear colonialism and carbon imperialism, Pacific storytellers offer compelling narratives to nurture the land and each other in times of global environmental collapse"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"We Are Not Drowning

We Are Fighting"

Isletism: The Latest Stage of Orientalism

Oceanitude: A Philosophy for the Anthropocene

Atomic Animals: The Hidden Face of the Sixth Mass Extinction

The H-Bomb and Humor: The Arts of Laughing at Death and Diseases

Radiation Refugees: Rethinking the Age of Mass Migration

"With our Hearts Broken and Our Eyes Peeled for Beauty".

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Maurer, Anaïs 1989- Ocean on fire.

ISBN:

9781478059059

1478059052

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.