Blue Humanities

BLUE HUMANITIES

By Aksa Ann Kuriakose

Water bodies are often treated as characters in literature, and Blue Humanities examines how these characters contribute to narratives and themes.

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​Blue humanities is an interdisciplinary field that explores the cultural, historical and emotional connections between humans and water bodies.

Multiple Choice

Who wrote the work "The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's are One"?

• Rachel Carson

• Sylvia Earle

• Art Spiegelman

• Alanna Mitchell

Multiple Choice

Who is the critic associated with the term 'Blue Humanities'?

• Steve Mentz

• Stephen Hertz

• Hannah Arendt

• Nathan Carlin

Multiple Choice

"The Sea Around Us" is a prize-winning book published in 1951 by

• Alanna Mitchell

• Robert Macfarlaine

• Susan Sontag

• Rachel Carson

Multiple Choice

Which of these is not a castaway narrative?

• Robinson Crusoe

• The Murders in the Rue Morgue

• The Island of Dr Moreau

• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Multiple Choice

Which author in his work talked about map-making as a subjective process?

• Peng Shepherd

• Emily Garfield

• Monmonier

• Jess Miller

Multiple Choice

Which literary text is frequently cited in Blue Humanities scholarship for its representation of the sea as a space of resistance and transformation?

• The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Ulysses by James Joyce

Multiple Choice

Which scholar is not directly associated with Blue Humanities or oceanic studies?

• Steve Mentz

• Elizabeth DeLoughrey

• Christina Sharpe

• Roland Barthes

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a book by Elizabeth DeLoughrey related to Blue Humanities?

• Allegories of the Anthropocene

• The Shipwrecked Mind

• A Paradise Built in Hell

• The Sea Around Us

Multiple Choice

Which scholar connects the “Middle Passage” with oceanic memory and trauma?

• Steve Mentz

• Dipesh Chakrabarty

• Christina Sharpe

• Bruno Latour

Multiple Choice

Which of the following books is considered a foundational text in the Blue Humanities?

• The Blue Economy by Gunter Pauli

• At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid

• Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719 by Steve Mentz

• The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell