Introduction: Women and Water – Mapping a fluid terrain
Emma Staniland
Part One. Mythologies and Spiritualities of Water
The Atlantis Effect: Aquatic invocations and the (re)claiming of women’s space in the works and archives of Gloria Anzaldúa, tatiana de la tierra, and Lydia Cabrera
Sarah E. Piña
Connecting Women through Water: Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads (2003) as matrifocal speculative fiction
Leighan Renaud
Grottoes and Mermaids: fairy tales and transformations in Marie Nimier’s Sirène (1985) and La Plage (2016)
Rebecca Rosenberg
"Water, Water, Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Drink": spiritual renewal through destruction in Jewell Parker Rhodes’s Hurricane (2011)
Angela Watkins
Part Two. Rivers, Lakes and Oceans
Of Deserts and Oceans: spaces of womanhood in the work of Malika Mokkedem
Elizabeth H. Jones
Re-writing the Colonial River: Fabienne Bayet-Charlton’s Watershed (2005) and Murray River narratives
Brigid Magner and Emily Potter
Ko wai koe? identity and water in contemporary women’s writing from Aotearoa New Zealand
Paula Morris
Time and Tide: topographies of trauma in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland (2013)
Kamil Naicker
Watery Subjectivities: exploring female Somali diasporic experiences of the sea in Cristina Ali Farah’s Little Mother (2011) and "A Dhow is Crossing the Sea" (2011)
Ayan Salaad
Part Three. Metaphors of Liquidity
Flowing along Endlessly: Banana Yoshimoto’s female protagonists and water as guiding force
Carrie Giunta
Women, Water and the House Built on Sand: tropes of liquidity in the feminist Latin American dictatorship novel – Cristina Peri Rossi’s The Ship of Fools (1984) and Diamela Eltit’s The Fourth World (1988)
Emma Staniland
Water metaphors as communication structures in Astrid H. Roemer’s Was getekend (Was Marked) (1998)
Emma Van Meyeren
Biography
Emma Staniland is a Teaching Fellow in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Leicester, UK, where she also completed her PhD. Her research interests focus on experiences of female selfhood as portrayed in Latin American women’s writing, the connections between gender and genre (with a particular interest in global rearticulations of the Bildungsroman and in memoir writing), and US and UK Latinx literature and culture.
