Anomalous, Containerized and Inundating Waters

Thinking from the Cape and through Blue Focalization with K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents

Datos Bibliográficos

ID18972758
AutoresM Samuelson (0000-0002-5070-1046, The University of Adelaide, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen24
Número3
Páginas463-478
Fecha de publicación2022-04-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInterventions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1369-801X • E-ISSN: 1469-929X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369801x.2021.2015706
OpenAlexW4200088750
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas22

K. Sello Duiker’s novel Thirteen Cents focalizes water in profound ways from the spatial vantage point of the Cape Peninsula, a location that has been the setting of various decisive episodes in what Isabel Hofmeyr describes as “hydrocolonialism.” Figuring water’s anomalous properties and the procedures of containerization that have advanced the capitalist world-system consuming the South, the novel offers the material metaphor of inundation with which to think through the persistently racialised structures of global capitalism as they combine with the emergent planetary crisis. Restoring materiality to this metaphor, the novel advances apprehension of the precarity imposed upon the South as the consumption of its goods returns in amplified harms. It is instructive also on how reading itself might be performed as an immersive and diffractive methodology toward a realization of the “planetary humanism” that Paul Gilroy sees emerging from “sea-level theory.”

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