African Nurses and Everyday Work in Twentieth-Century Zimbabwe

exploratory rather than expository. Consequently, engagement on key prompts tends to be rather brief. This is most notable in the proposal in the conclusion to look at the farm novel from the perspective of the dockside. For readers uninitiated into this genre, a more extensive argument would have been beneficial. Nevertheless, Dockside Reading is an invitation to think about water and words together, to consider the migratory nature of hydrocolonial practices, to travel to the unpredictable landscape of the seaside in all its dampness and with all its scents. If an epidemiological hermeneutics informed the imperial world of customs officials, we are obliged, I think, to question excessive concerns with contagion.