Reconfiguring Ocean Life by Thinking with Oceans and Whales

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_13800
dc.title	Reconfiguring Ocean Life by Thinking with Oceans and Whales. Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider and Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller
dc.contributor.author	Concilio Carmen
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2023/25/reconfiguring-ocean-life-by-thinking-with-oceans-a/
dc.description.abstract	Whales are stranded along the Atlantic Ocean in North America, the press spread the news in February 2023. Witi Ihimaera’s novel The Whale Rider (1987) frames a similar episode: “Two hundred whales, lifeless on the beach and in the water” (1987, 85). Stranded whales are protagonists in Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller (2005), too. Here, a whale is the pretext to explore gender issues, role models in traditional indigenous societies, capitalist economy and tourism, the perception of chieftainship, shamans and spirituality. Making use of acoustic ecology (Carson 1955; Shafer 1994), whales ‘speak’ of relations between humans, non-humans (Huggan 2021) and oceans (Regazzoni 2022).
dc.relation.ispartof	Il Tolomeo
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 25 \| Dicembre 2023
dc.issued	2023-12-18
dc.dateAccepted	2023-10-31
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-06-08
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-5975
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2023/01/013
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	New Zealand Environmental Humanities
dc.subject	South Africa
dc.subject	Southern Ocean
dc.subject	Whales

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Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider and Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller

Carmen Concilio Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia

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abstract

Whales are stranded along the Atlantic Ocean in North America, the press spread the news in February 2023. Witi Ihimaera’s novel The Whale Rider (1987) frames a similar episode: “Two hundred whales, lifeless on the beach and in the water” (1987, 85). Stranded whales are protagonists in Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller (2005), too. Here, a whale is the pretext to explore gender issues, role models in traditional indigenous societies, capitalist economy and tourism, the perception of chieftainship, shamans and spirituality. Making use of acoustic ecology (Carson 1955; Shafer 1994), whales ‘speak’ of relations between humans, non-humans (Huggan 2021) and oceans (Regazzoni 2022).

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18 Dicembre 2023

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31 Ottobre 2023

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08 Giugno 2023

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Keywords: Whales • Southern Ocean • New Zealand Environmental Humanities • South Africa

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