Shipwreck Hauntography

Underwater Ruins and the Uncanny

Sara Rich (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2021
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-770-9 (ISBN)

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Drawing on a broad theoretical range from speculative realism to feminist psychoanalysis and anti-colonialism, this book represents a radical departure from traditional scholarship on maritime archaeology. Shipwreck Hauntography asserts that nautical archaeology bears the legacy of Early Modern theological imperialism, most evident through the savior-scholar model that resurrects—physically or virtually—ships from wrecks. Instead of construing shipwrecks as dead, awaiting resurrection from the seafloor, this book presents them as vibrant if not recalcitrant objects, having shaken off anthropogenesis through varying stages of ruination. Sara Rich illustrates this anarchic condition with 'hauntographs' of five Age of 'Discovery' shipwrecks, each of which elucidates the wonder of failure and finitude, alongside an intimate brush with the eerie, horrific, and uncanny.

Sara Rich is a maritime archaeologist, art historian, artist, and author of speculative fiction. She is currently Assistant Professor of Honors and Interdisciplinary Studies at Coastal Carolina University.

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Preface: Hauntographies of Ordinary Shipwrecks

1. Resetting the Binary Bones
Legacy (Marigalante)
Liturgy (The Gresham Ship)
Litany (Santa Maria)
Liminality (The Nissia)

2. Broken Ship, Dead Ship
Ontology (The Yarmouth Roads)
Meontology (Holigost)
Deontology (Mary Rose)
Mereology (Argo and Ark)

3. Among the Tentative Haunters
Conversion (Terror and Erebus)
Inversion (Impregnable)
Delirium (Belle)
Desiderium (The Ribadeo)

4. Vibrant Corpses
Entropy (Nuestra Senora de los Remedios)
Negentropy (Magdalena)
Putrefaction (Sanchi)
Purification (Costa Concordia)

5. Macabre Simulacra
Exploration (Melckmeyt)
Exploitation (Thistlegorm)
Eschatology (Batavia)
Elegy (Bayonnaise)

Postface. On Underwater Seances and Punk Eulogies

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Erscheinungsdatum	20.08.2021
Reihe/Serie	Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800
Zusatzinfo	13 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	94-6372-770-1 / 9463727701
ISBN-13	978-94-6372-770-9 / 9789463727709
Zustand	Neuware