Reading for Water : Materiality and Method (Paperback)

Introduction: Reading for Water 1. On Pluviality: Reading for Rain in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift 2. Hydrocolonial Johannesburg 3. Postcolonial Plumbing: Reading for Wastewater in Antjie Krog’s A Change of Tongue 4. Shadow of a Drought: Notes from Cape Town’s Water Crisis 5. A Mermaid in a Dry City: A Watery Reading of Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning 6. Words on Black Water: Setting South African “Plantation Literature” Afloat on the Kala Pani 7. Dark Water: Rustum Kozain’s This Carting Life (2005) 8. “Does the Water Repeat?” Reading Caribbean-South African Contemporary Fiction 9. Is the Anthropocene Conniving with Capital? Water Priva(tisa)tion and Ontology Reimagined in Karen Jayes’ For the Mercy of Water 10. Shipwreck and Psychosis: Sheila Fugard’s The Castaways 11. Anomalous, Containerized and Inundating Waters: Thinking from the Cape and through Blue Focalization with K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents