About
Us
We are building an open-source literary archive focused on representations of oceans, seas, and other bodies of water in fiction. The project is dedicated exclusively to fictional works, including novels and short stories that explore oceanic materiality, maritime encounters, precarity, voyages, coastal and littoral communities, submerged histories, and other narratives that foreground life with, on, or against water.
This project seeks to integrate the blue humanities with the digital humanities to build an open-access, crowdsourced digital repository for fictional writings that depict waterscapes and water bodies in India and beyond. In doing so, the project endeavours to address the necessity of developing ontological and epistemological frameworks in reading literary fiction and history from an aquatic perspective. In congruence with the idea of ‘thinking with the ocean,’ the project seeks to develop an open-access searchable database for literary works from India that pertain to the Indian Ocean, encompassing themes of seas, rivers, islands, coastal belts, littoral, deltas, and marine and riverine ecologies and cultures.