Arthur Rose
In the Wake of Asbestos: Ship-building and Ship-breaking in Ross Raisin's Waterline and Tahmima Anam's The Bones of Grace
Rose, Arthur
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Abstract
This article interprets Ross Raisin's Waterline and Tahmima Anam's The Bones of Grace and their invocation of Glasgow's ship-building and Chittagong's ship-breaking industries, respectively. The article addresses variations in the cost of work, social fragility, and health precarity across parallel postcolonial economies, which are illustrated by comparing the risks the ship workers face. Waterline and The Bones of Grace share an interest in the consequences of ship-building and ship-breaking, but they do not individually consider how these activities produce different risks depending on whether they take place in the Global North or the Global South. Preoccupied with their own immediate health concerns, the texts pay scant attention to shared risks that intersect across the life-cycle of ships. Reading the novels together demonstrates how each might supplement the other in attending to the health experiences of workers in ship construction and destruction, especially as they relate to asbestos exposure.
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Rose, A. (2018). In the Wake of Asbestos: Ship-building and Ship-breaking in Ross Raisin's Waterline and Tahmima Anam's The Bones of Grace. https://doi.org/10.1353/ari.2018.0032
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Nov 23, 2018 |
Publication Date | Nov 23, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Dec 6, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 6, 2018 |
Journal | Ariel. |
Print ISSN | 1920-1222 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 49 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 139-161 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1353/ari.2018.0032 |
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