How to Detain a Tsunami: Impassable Boundaries against Ocean Chaos in Ancient and Modern Imaginaries

• Autores: Manuel Álvarez Martí-Aguilar
• Localización: The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception / coord. por Hamish Williams, Ross Clare, 2022, ISBN 9781800854239, págs. 203-226
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It would not be rash to claim that until Boxing Day 2004, most people were unfamiliar with tsunamis. The media images of tourists on the Thai beaches, puzzled but not alarmed by the rapidly retreating ocean and quite unaware of the approaching destruction with its violent return, reveal the lack of understanding of this natural phenomenon among those who do not live in high-risk, seismic hazard zones, such as the seaboards of Japan and Chile. The film The Impossible (2012) recounts the catastrophe on 26 December and perfectly illustrates the way in which the contemporary globalized society regarded that mega-tsunami...