Blue Humanities and the Indian Ocean: South Asian Literary and Cultural Representations
Journal: Journal of Postcolonial Writing
This special issue aims to explore the postcolonial ocean and the concerns it raises —ranging from environmental justice and oceanic pollution to the fallouts of extractive industries —particularly in the case of the Indian Ocean, which has long borne witness to colonial aggression, postcolonial resistance, and the neocolonial ambitions of neoliberal actors. While the ocean is reckoned to underscore an ‘oceanic defi…