The Global Deluge: Floods, Diluvian Imagery, and Aquatic Language in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Gun Island.

This article reappraises the potential of realism with respect to the representation of climate change through an analysis of the figure of the flood in what I term Anthropocene water fictions. The article draws on Amitav Ghosh’s nonfictional The Great Derangement (2016) together with his novels The Hungry Tide (2004) and Gun Island (2019), published before and after The Great Derangement, respectively. I argue that through their development of an aquatic language and diluvian imagery, Anthropocene water fictions challenge the limitations of realism that Ghosh identifies in The Great Derangement

The Aesthetics of Bodies in Translation. From The Water-Babies to Real Humans

In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social sciences, this collection underlines how bodily models and transformations, thought until recently to be only fictional products, have become a part of our reality. The essays provide a spectrum of perspectives on how the body emerges as a transitional environment between fictional and factual elements, a process understood as faction