Abstract
ABSTRACTThis essay explores the environmental imagination of the ocean to claim that these open spaces lend themselves to narratives where law and justice are interrogated and subverted through narrative techniques connected to unreliability. The essay’s primary interest is in the pairing of narrative ambiguity and the trouble with wilderness in colonial maritime narratives, in which narrators tend to harness the fact that international waters are environments largely liberated from social, legal and political constraints in their attempts to offer up “justice” aboard ship. The essay uses the analysis of Benito Cereno and Sub rosa to demonstrate that narratologists need to consider the environmental imagination for a more fruitful discussion of narrative space.
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