Full Description
What's in the Deep?
This companion explores the myths and legends of merfolk and sea monsters to navigate our transcultural pasts and environmental presents and explain our endless fascination with the sea. More than any other time in human history, our relationship to the oceans and the creatures of the Deep has come into focus, not just as an environment to be explored, exploited and, more recently, poisoned, but as source of both our deepest anxieties and possible futures. In 31 original essays by experts in their respective fields, the Deep is brought to life, from representations of mythological sea creatures to present-day visions of the blue environment. As our place in the world and our effects upon it become increasingly contentious, The Deep offers ways in which we might re-experience and realign ourselves to the watery world that covers the majority of the earth's surface and become part of a shared, more ecological, future.
Contents
Contents: Introduction - Image Intervention I: Myths of the Sea and the Sky - Leviathan, Mythical Creature (600 BC- present) - Biblical Myth - The Matsya Avatar (300 AD- present) - Indian Myth - Scales (Shahad Ameen, 2019) - Middle Eastern Myth - The Great Horned Serpent (c. 1450- present) - Iroquois Myth - Rusalki (Witold Pruszkowski, 1877) - Slavic Myth - Tropic of the Sea (Satoshi Kon, 2013) - Modern Japanese Myth - Duyung (Abdul Razak Mohaideen, 2008) - Aquatic Femininity - The Legend of Kópakonan (1891) - Punishing the Monstrous Feminine - The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen, 1837) - Feminine Magics - #Posidaeja (Efa, 2021) - Reclaiming the Feminine - Underwater (William Eubank, 2020) - Feminine Self in the Male Psyche - Aquaman Volume 1: The Trench (Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, 2011- 2012) - Changing Masculinities - The Creature from the Black Lagoon ( Jack Arnold, 1954) - Contested Masculinities - The Shadow Over Innsmouth (H. P. Lovecraft, 1936) - Recontextualising the Past - Hans Christian Andersen (1805- 1875) - Queer Affect - Image Intervention II: Untitled - Into the Drowning Deep (Mira Grant, 2017) - Mimicking Femininity - The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen, 1837) - Agency and the Feminine Body - "The Mermaid" (Hanna Cormick, 2018) - Environmental Disability and Aquatic Climate Crises - Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore, 2014) - Disentangling Difference - Possession (1981) to My Octopus Teacher (2020) - Beyond Human Desire - The Daedalus and the Great Sea Serpent (1848) - Oceanic Epistemologies - The Lure [Córki dancingu] (Agnieszka Smoczyńska, 2015) - The Eco- other as Spectacle - The Meg ( Jon Turtletaub, 2018) - Environmental Exploitation - Into the Drowning Deep (Mira Grant, 2017) - Neo- colonialism and the Liminal - Crawl (Alexandre Aja, 2019) - Ecological Decolonisation - Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) - Ecological Exchanges - Image Intervention III: Becoming Merfolk - Abe Sapien (1994- present) - Ecofascism and the New World - Moana (Ron Clements and John Musker, 2016) - The Healing Ocean - Ocean Poems (David Malouf, 1976- 1991) - Becoming Ocean, Becoming Self - Évolution (Lucile Hadžihalilović, 2015) - Transgressive Reproduction - Subnautica (Unknown Worlds Entertainment, 2014) - Envirofuturism.
