Reading for Water

<p>An experiment in reading for water this book offers students and teachers a toolkit of methods that follow the sensory political and agentive power of water across literary texts.</p><p>The chapters in this book follow rivers rain streams tunnels and sewers; connect atmospheric surface and ground water; describe competing hydrological traditions and hydro-epistemologies. They propose new literary regions defined less by nation and area than by coastlines river basins monsoons currents and hydro-cosmologies. Whether thinking along water courses below the water line or through the fall of precipitation <i>Reading for Water</i> moves laterally vertically and contrapuntally between different water-worlds and hydro-imaginaries. Addressing southern African and Caribbean texts the collection draws on a range of elementally inclined literary approaches: critical oceanic studies new materialisms coastal and hydrocritical approaches hydrocolonialism black hydropoetics and atmospheric methods.</p><p>The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of <i>Interventions.</i></p>