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In Mauritian literature in French, the tropical storm has served as an essential poetic and narrative element from Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s ouragan that caused the tragic shipwreck in Paul et Virginie (1788) and Marcel Cabon’s orage in Namasté (1965) to Ananda Devi’s cyclone in Pagli (2001). Through an analysis of tropical storm narratives in Mauritian novels, the chapter shows that these literary weather events construct liminal zones where possibilities of collective resilience are reaffirmed and acts of positive human interactions with nature are performed, thereby creating an alternate archive of ecological risk perception and response stories.
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Ravi, S. (2017). Tropical Cyclones in Mauritian Literature. In: Collett, A., McDougall, R., Thomas, S. (eds) Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather. Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41516-1_2
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