Uniting regions and nations through the looking glass of literature

This volume of essays emphasises the common theme that bodies of water may segregate, but, ironically, also unite nations and their readers through the literature that authors from various countries produce.

It reveals the importance of valuing literature that, over time, has travelled down bubbling streams, across lakes, along ocean waves, and white-water rivers because fiction, drama, and poetry know neither actual nor artificial boundaries, and, therefore, they cross-fertilise, and even transform, beliefs, practices, and roles across cultures.