Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture

Introduction.-Blue Extinction’.-‘Amitav Ghosh’s Dolphins: Extinction, Figuration and Redemption in The Hungry Tide and Gun Island’ .-‘The Prospects of Criticism in the Brave New Ocean.- Jackson, Verne, and Toussenel.-‘Narwhals for all Seasons.- Representation, Evasion and Absence’.-‘“We Will All Be Marine Mammals Soon”: Oceanic Intimacy and Extinction from Shakespeare to the Left-to-Die Boat’.-  ‘Held Together.- Learning Attachment from Oysters’ .-‘Surreal Seas and Embodied Encounters.- Elizabeth Bishop’s Darwinian Poetics’ .-‘Hydromaterialism and Membrane Logic in Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s Of Sea’.-‘A Story of Eight Limbs’.-‘Spectral Species in the (Political) Abyss.- From Living Fossils to Presumed Extinctions’.-‘Alien Rhythms: Sounding Black Futures from the Ocean Floor’.