Drawing on a broad theoretical range from speculative realism to feminist psychoanalysis and anti-colonialism, this book represents a radical departure from traditional scholarship on maritime archaeology. Shipwreck Hauntography asserts that nautical archaeology bears the legacy of Early Modern theological imperialism, most evident through the savior-scholar model that resurrects—physically or virtually—ships from wrecks. Instead of construing shipwrecks as dead, awaiting resurrection from the seafloor, they are presented as vibrant if not recalcitrant objects, having shaken off anthropogenesis through varying stages of ruination. Sara Rich illustrates this anarchic condition with ‘hauntographs’ of five Age of ‘Discovery’ shipwrecks, each of which elucidates the wonder of failure and finitude, alongside an intimate brush with the eerie, horrific, and uncanny.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Preface: Hauntographies of Ordinary Shipwrecks
- 1. Resetting the Binary Bones
- Legacy (Marigalante)
- Liturgy (The Gresham Ship)
- Litany (Santa María)
- Liminality (The Nissia)
- Works Cited
- 2. Broken Ship, Dead Ship
- Ontology (The Yarmouth Roads)
- Meontology (Holigost)
- Deontology (Mary Rose)
- Mereology (Argo and Ark)
- Works Cited
- 3. Among the Tentative Haunters
- Conversion (Terror and Erebus)
- Inversion (Impregnable)
- Delirium (Belle)
- Desiderium (The Ribadeo)
- Works Cited
- 4. Vibrant Corpses
- Entropy (Nuestra Señora de los Remedios)
- Negentropy (Magdalena)
- Putrefaction (Sanchi)
- Purification (Costa Concordia)
- Works Cited
- 5. Macabre Simulacra
- Exploration (Melckmeyt)
- Exploitation (Thistlegorm)
- Eschatology (Batavia)
- Elegy (Bayonnaise)
- Works Cited
- Postface. On Underwater Séances and Punk Eulogies
- Complete Works Cited
- Index
- Illustration List
- Hauntograph 1: Nissia 1. Burned cow bones and adhesive (Sara
Rich, 2019).
- Hauntograph 2: Nissia 2. Burned cow bones and ash (Sara Rich, 2020).
- Hauntograph 3: Yarmouth Roads 1. Digital photographic collage
(Sara Rich, 2016). Image credits: Maritime
Archaeology Trust and the Isle of Wight Heritage
Service.
- Hauntograph 4: Yarmouth Roads 2. Digital photographic collage
(Sara Rich, 2016). Image credits: Maritime
Archaeology Trust and the Isle of Wight Heritage
Service.
- Hauntograph 5: Ribadeo 1. Cyanotype prints, cuttlefish-ink
imprints on cloth, and fishnet fabric, draped by
brass rivets on acrylic rods on found window, in
order from top left to right, then bottom left to
right (Sara Rich, 2017). Image credits: Miguel San
Claudio Santa Cruz and Raúl González Gallero.
- Hauntograph 6: Ribadeo 2. Watercolor on fabric and ink on paper
(Sara Rich, 2017). Image credits: Miguel San
Claudio Santa Cruz.
- Hauntograph 7-11
- Hauntographs 12-16
- Hauntograph 17: Bayonnaise 6. Mobile with shells, coral, bones,
and fleur-de-lis print fabric sewn onto velvet-lined
metal tray (Sara Rich, 2019).
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