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Transoceanic and Transmedial Imaginaries in the Indian Ocean book cover

1st Edition

Transoceanic and Transmedial Imaginaries in the Indian Ocean

Edited By Ute Fendler, Clarissa Vierke Copyright 2026
226 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Transoceanic and Transmedial Imaginaries in the Indian Ocean explores multiple aesthetic relations constantly in flux, which construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct the Indian Ocean. It addresses the questions of how the arts – music, literature, visual art, and performance – relate to and dynamically create imaginaries of the Indian Ocean as a transcontinental space. Contributors focus on... Read more

Introduction: Multiple Indian Ocean: Transoceanic and Transmedial Imaginaries

Ute Fendler and Clarissa Vierke

Part I Alterity? The Unsettling Potential of the Indian Ocean

1 The Uneven (Critical) Seascape:(Re)orienting Indian Ocean Literary Studies toward the Debate on World-Literature                                                                                 

Elena Brugioni

2 Perceptions of Alterity in the Indian Ocean

Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya

3 The Woman Warrior Image in Contemporary Southwest Indian Ocean Women’s Performance Poetry

Zoly Rakotoniera

4 Daring to Détour: The Indian Ocean and Swahili Echoes in The Dragonfly Sea

Clarissa Vierke

Part II  Vernacular Indian Ocean Cosmopolis: Materializations and Textualizations

5 “A Great Stillness Fell”: Materializing Indian Ocean Immobilities in Sheikh Khamis Nassor al‑Nabhany’s “Epic of the Useless Clove”

Nathalie Arnold Koenings

6 Swahili Library Worlds: Unpacking the Indian Ocean Intellectual History of Three Twentieth-Century “Living Archives” in East Africa

Annachiara Raia

7 Croaking Toads and Singing Youth: When the Sega Angaze Meets the Francophone Novel

Nikhita Obeegadoo

8 The Translocal Baraza and Its Zanzibari Imaginaries

Duncan Tarrant

Part III  Intermedial Thalassological Relations

9 Women Storying the Swahili Seas: Indian Ocean Feminist Aesthetics and Affective Imaginaries in Lubaina Himid’s Political Painting

Franziska Fay

10 “Ceux qu’on jette à la mer…”: Tidalectic Memories of the Ocean

Ute Fendler

11 Of Boats, Plates, and Waves: Portrait of a Goan Sea Artist 

Pamila Gupta

12 Sensing Territory, History, and Contemporary Art in the Mascarenes Archipelago

Pedro Pombo

Biography

Ute Fendler holds the Chair in “Romance Literary and Comparative Studies” at the University of Bayreuth and is the deputy spokesperson of the “Africa Multiple” Cluster of Excellence. Her current research projects focus on the Black Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. She recently coedited the volume Africa‑Asia – Multifaceted Engagement in the Contemporary World (2024).

Clarissa Vierke is Professor of Literatures in African Languages at the University of Bayreuth. Her research focuses on Swahili poetry, Islamic manuscript cultures, and literary entanglements across the Indian Ocean. She co‑edited In This Fragile World (2023) and is PI of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence.

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