Asia’s Maritime History and Identity at Cultural Crossroads by Santhosh, Sreedevi; T. H., Samjaila; S., Preethi;

Short description:

Maritime Asia, collectively bordered by the Pacific, Indian and Arctic Ocean, sources Asia’s food reserve, goods and ideas yet figures relatively lesser in global cultural production.

Long description:

Maritime Asia, collectively bordered by the Pacific, Indian and Arctic Ocean, sources Asia’s food reserve, goods and ideas yet figures relatively lesser in global cultural production. Asia’s ‘great highways’ and ‘wide common’ of the sea function as routes for trade and commerce that underpins globalization. Due to unprecedented human trafficking at sea, the ocean has largely become a repository for plastic pollution, waste and effluents. Complex oceanic-ecosystems make it inconceivable for human beings to take stock of the interdependence of seas, earth and atmosphere, ‘missing in context’ for redressal.

Table of Contents:

1. A Travelled Genre: The Novel in Khasi Literature

Badakynti Nylla Iangngap

2. Madness and Displacement in the Film Kalira Atita (Yesterday’s Past): A Geo- Demographic and

Psychoanalytic Reading of Tropical Cyclones

Shatabdi Mishra and Swaroopa Mahapatra

3. Land, Power and Politics: A Marxist Examination of the Land - Caste Nexus in Thakazhi’s

Kayar and its Geopolitical Resonances

P. Kalaivelmani and Arokia Immaculate Sheela S.

4. The Water Unites and the Land Divides: Exploring Chinese Maritime Migration and the

Birth of Kolkata Chinatown

Raymond Pao Lung Yu and Sreemoyee Sarkar

5. Kochi Water Metro: Revisiting the Economy-Ecology Paradox of Water Transportation

Arya Aiyappan, Sourav Karthikeyan and Fahim Seettha

6. Inclusion of Kappal Kalaham in Mamakam Rituals: A Sea Change in Cultural Practices

Nisha M.

7. Dual Identities and Cultural Negotiations: A Study of Goan Diasporic Communities,

Their Challenges and Contribution in Preserving Heritage

Zubaida H. and Saviro Alroy Vas

8. Spirality Motif: The Geophilosophy of the Sea in Children of the Sea

Esther Susannah Rajam

9. A Journey to Redeem or Attain Redemption? : A Study of the Migration of Knanaya

Community through Select Folk Songs

Chitra Rohan

10. Rethinking Environmental Consciousness and Sustainable Development through New Stories and

Ideologies

R. Pranesh Kumar

11. Interrogating the Colonial Legacy of Kochi: A Reading of Rigo 23’s Installation in Kochi-Muziris

Biennale

Nimmi I.

12. Of Sea and Self: A Panpsychist Analysis of Bharatan’sAmaram

Kalyani Menon and Aiswaryalakshmi M.

13. Saltwater Chronicle: Cyclonic Memory and Resilience in the Folk Ballads of the Sundarbans

Vibha Sharma and Mir Masudul Hoque

14. Silent Architects: A Study on Tamil Indentured Labourers in the Maritime British Empire

M. Samadhanam Emimal

15. Navigating Maritime Spaces: A Study of Fisherwomen and their Interactions in the Public

Realm in Alappuzha, Kerala

Indhu Vijayan and Amrutha Rinu Abraham

16. Repositioning on the Global Stage: Maritime Identity in Yukio Mishima’s the Temple of the Golden

Pavilion

Vasumathi M.

17. AVM Canal as Testimony of Oral Traditions and Cultural Memory

Brighton A. Rose, Meshach R. S. Edwin and Merrin R. S.

18. (Re)-Visiting the Marine Industry and Maritime Simulators

L. Santhosh Kumar, Thejas Gigy Thomas and Joshy Mathew

19. Colonialism at Sea: A Study of Cultural Resilience and Assimilation in Maritime Asia 104

Midhuna Mary Binu, Sreedevi Santhosh and Samjaila TH

20. When Rivers Meet the Sea: How Kerala’s Maritime Pathways Shaped the Development of

Athirampuzha as an In-land Trading Centre

Annah Thankam Mathew

21. Non-Human Agency and Identity in Plastic Debris: A Speculative Realistic Reading of

Craig Leeson’s Documentary A Plastic Ocean

Githin Gigi Mannakunnil and K. Shantichitra

22. The Tides of Change: Exploring the Intersection of Tradition and Modernity Among the

Mogaveera Community

Yajusha, Zubaida H.

23. Museum as Mediators: Integrating Local Histories within Archaeological Narratives at the

Muziris Children’s Museum, Pattanam, Kerala

Neethu Prasad

24. Navigating Morality: The Ethics and Legacy of Indian Ocean Pirates

Anju Theresa Anil and Sovya Shephyr

25. Culinary Cultural Crossroads: An Introduction to Historical and Socio-Cultural Exploration of

Indian Maritime Encounters in Southeast Asia

Irona Bhaduri

26. Maritime Spaces: Islands as Geographies of Crime and Horror

Preethi S., Pauline V. N.

27. Nautical Narratives: An Exploration from Bygone to Present

Blessy R.

28. Are We Really Out of the Tragic Triad? Understanding the Dialectic of “Paracolonialism” and

“Wet Globalization” through Blue Humanities

Shahrukh Khan

29. A Requiem for the Ocean: Ecocritical Engagements with Plastic Pollution and Coral Bleaching

Steffi Santhana Mary S.

30. Seascapes: The Ocean in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies

Persara Lyngdoh

31. Legendary Mountains and Maritime Spheres: Exploring the Symbolic and Navigational

Significance of Mandara, Mainak, and Meru in South Asia

R. Radhika

32. Ocean Sustainability Through Storytelling: A Study of S. T. Coleridge’s Rime of The Ancient

Mariner Through the Lens of Indian and Western Literary Theories

Kuldipsinh D. Jadejam, Umamageshwari S. and Aarzoo Haji

33. Besieged by the Shifting Sea: Challenges Amid Ecological Change

Nedha Fazli M. K.

34. Traversing Maritime Chessboard: Power Plays in the Indian Ocean Region

L. Santhosh Kumar, Joshy Mathew

Andi Asrifan

35. Revisiting Maritime History through the Literary Evidences of South-Asian Piracy, Terrorism

and the Oceanic Combat for Capital and Power

Mary Raymer, C. Madan Mohan and Punit Pathak

36. Bake-Kujira: A Study of Yōkai Myth, Cultural Historicization and Marine Conservation

Uma Maheswary and Swetha S.

37. Looking at the East through the Chinese Lens: A Multidisciplinary Study of Ma Huan’s

The Overall Survey of the Ocean

Sahin Shah

38. The Ministry for The Future: An Eye Opener Towards The Harrowing Collapse of Climate

Linju M. and A. J. Manju

39. A Single-Case Study on Resilience and Adaptation in the Children of Indian Coast Guard

Personnel

L. Grashya and M. John Suganya

40. Stagnant Waters and Haunting Bodies: A Study of Hydro Terror in Enmakaje through

Ambika SuthanMangad’sEndosulfan: NilavilikalAvasanikkunnilla

Aathira A. S.

41. Navigating Time and Tide: A Cultural Documentation of Maritime Ethnography and Social

Transformation in Joe D’ Cruz’s Korkai

C. Amutha Charu Sheela and Raghavi Priya

42. Coral Harmony: Implementing SDGs for Healthy Trade in Southeast Asia through

Coastal Communities

Karthick S., Merrin Antony and Shanantha T.

43. Gender Intersectionality with Cultural History and Blue Ecocriticism in Lisa See’s

The Island of Sea Women

Iflah Munaf Sathoo

44. Lord of the Flies Revisited: An Examination of Human Nature through Adolescent

Conflict on a Deserted Island

Deepikha B. and V. M. Saranya

45. Ocean as a Metaphor for Identity and Transformation in Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi

Sruthi K. M., Akhila Variyar and Jerrin Jose

46. Calicut and the Spice Routes: Maritime Power, Cultural Exchange, and the Legacy of the

Zamorins in Asia’s Oceanic History

Aryamol K. B.

47. The Seafaring Heroes and a Damsel in Distress: The Shared Maritime Experiences of the

Lived and the Imagined in S.P. Jananathan’sIyarkai

Sathish Kumar R., Ajit I. and Masilamani C.

48. Between Tides and Tigers: Displacement, Survival, and Cultural Identity in Amitav Ghosh’s

The Hungry Tide

D. N. P. Prema Ponmani and Alphy Maria M.A.

49. Beneath the Tide: Maritime Literature and the Hideous Mystery of “Black Water: Abyss” (2020)

Simna P. S. and Thejas Gigy Thomas

50. Chords of the Ocean: Unveiling Maritime Identity through Musicscape in Carsten Jensen’s

We, the Drowned

S. Gomathi and K. Shruthi

51. Connoted Waters: Under- standing Transcorporeality through Select Kurunthokai Poem of

Neidal Thinai in Sangam Literature of Tamil Nadu

A. Celin Raichel Sarona and T. David Jeyaraj Franklin

52. The Role of Women in Maritime Trade and Labour in Tamil Nadu’s Coastal Border:

A Gender Intersectional Perspective within Maritime Activities

Priyadarshini S., M. Rajalakshmi and Ben J. Milton

53. Building Resistance: Water Feminism in Eeram

N. Ravikumar, M. Manjula and M. Lavanya

54. The Coastal Economy versus the Agrarian Economy of South Tamil Nadu: Geopolitical and

Ecocritical Reflections on Ocean Rimmed World

Mizpah R. and Prabahar S.

55. Islands of Flavor: The Interplay of Aqua Pelagic Assemblage and Culinary Currents in

South Korea’s The Island of Sea Women

N. Archana and V. M. Saranya

56. The Mythical World of Legendary Beasts and Celestial Protectors in Asian Oceanic Lore

Kiruthick V. A. and M. John Suganya

57. Masculine Seas and Feminine Demons: Maritime Myths and Gender Dynamics in

Tiya Chatterjee’s Horrors of The Sea

Shameeha S. and V. P Anvar Sadhath

58. Potato to Protato: How the European Maritime Expedition Re-imagined the

Indian Foodscape with GM Cultivars

Daisy Roshan Rebera