The Complicating Sea
The Indian Ocean as Method
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9294595 |
|---|---|
| Authors | I Hofmeyr (0000-0002-7904-5935, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 584-590 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1089-201X • E-ISSN: 1548-226X |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/1089201x-1891579 |
| OpenAlex | W2101933422 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 57 |
| References cited | 28 |
Within the academy, as transnational and oceanic forms of analysis become more prominent, the Indian Ocean attracts attention, especially as a domain that offers rich possibilities for working beyond the templates of the nation-state and area studies. The Indian Ocean makes visible a range of lateral networks that fall within the Third World or Global South. It is hence of particular relevance to those pursuing post–area studies scholarship and has much to say to the themes of this special issue on comparative literature across Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Hofmeyr’s article seeks to demonstrate the ways in which the idea of the Indian Ocean might be deployed in pursuing such objectives. It surveys current trends within Indian Ocean scholarship and suggests how these might be used to illuminate questions of comparative literary history across Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. The article examines themes of print culture across these three regions as well as aspects of anglophone literatures between South Asia and Africa
Ancient history · Archaeology · China · East Asia · Geography · Indian ocean · Middle East · Political science · Relevance (law · Scholarship · South asia · State (computer science · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Geology · Oceanography
The Complicated Selves of Transcolonialism
Probable, Improbable, and Catastrophic Realisms in Amitav Ghosh’s Fiction
Global Literary Studies
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s African Ocean
What is the Place of Local Swahili Poetry in the Grand Indian Ocean? Reading Ustadh Mahmoud Mau’s Poetry from Lamu from a Perspective of Dynamic Relations
The Literary Indian Ocean
What is the Middle East?
“The Sea Cannot Be Spoken”. Thinking About Aesthetic Relations, the Poetics of Language(s) and Place Through Yvonne Owuor’s the Dragonfly Sea
Tracing the depths
Imperially White and Male. Colonial Masculinities in M. G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets (1994) and Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Desertion (2005)
Delimiting “Mediterranean Religion”
Post-Peasant Progressivism
Beyond Blue Eyes
Global Recruitment
Notes on Aesthetics, Ethnography and Being in the World
Transoceanic Entanglements
From the Sky to the Streets, and Back
Asymmetries
Book forum on Charles Hirschkind, The Feeling of History
Nienke Boer. The Briny South
Il mare come metodo? Suggestioni dall’Oceano Indiano
Searching for stoke in Indian Ocean surf zones
The Postcommunist Supplement
Transoceanic Orientalism and Embodied Translation in Sayyida Salme/Emily Ruete’s Memoirs
Anthropology of Transformation
Towards a “New Africanity”
Concrete Oceans
Making use of water
Crossing Black Waters
Critical hydrography in the long nineteenth century
Duplicities
Futurizing Geo-tropicality
Mission Statement Responses
Mission Statement Responses
Introduction
Ripples of Partition
Mission Statement Responses
Indian Friends, Iranian Selves, Persianate Modern
Mission Statement Responses
Mission Statement Responses
Off-Shore Aesthetics and Waste in the Ship-Breaking Literature of Bangladesh
Mission Statement Responses
Memories of indenture
Thinking About the Indian Ocean and the Mausam Initiative
Water Cartographies of Goa
Connective Afrasian Sea memories
Revisiting Michael Pearson’s Indian Ocean Littoral
Sea Tracks and Trails
Rethinking nineteenth-century literary culture
The Many Voyages of Fateh Al-Khayr
Science and islands in Indo-Pacific worlds
The Power of ‘Oceanic Thinking’
Remembering the ways of the water
The aqueous form and the Afro-Sino encounter in Yvonne Owuor's The Dragonfly Sea
The Politics of 'Greater India,' a Moral Geography
Watery Archives
Djibouti and the Death of Hamoudi Ahmed
A Politics of Virtue
Modernity and Culture from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, 1890-1920
Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean
The Idea of ‘Africa’ in Indian Nationalism
New Approaches to VOC History in South Africa
Convicts in the Indian Ocean
The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama
Merchants And Faith
A Hundred Horizons
India and the Indian Ocean World
Littoral Society
Cold War Cosmopolitanism
Introduction
The East African Slave Trade, 1861-1895
Wider Opportunities
The Black Atlantic Meets the Indian Ocean
Fugitive Mullahs and Outlawed Fanatics
Left to the Imagination
The Graves of Tarim
Violent Texts, Vulnerable Readers
Empire through Diasporic Eyes
Print, Newspapers and Audiences in Colonial Kenya
Transnational Islam and Public Sphere Dynamics in Kwazulu-Natal
Authority and Piety, Writing and Print
| Unique citing works | 57 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,38 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 56 |