In this article I draw together the meteorological term denoting intense rainfall – pluviality – as a conceptual category and explore its specifically literary dimensions. I draw it together with the sea as a material domain and think through rain and sea as vectors of the oceanic and of the literary ecologies that this issue seeks to explore. I consider closely the outlines of the emerging field of the ‘oceanic humanities’ in general and analyse Lindsey Collen’s Mauritian novel Mutiny in particular. More generally, I reflect on the drawing into hermeneutic encounter of the earth sciences and literary interpretation and how and on what terms we might think in this interdisciplinary way about climate shift and a form of temporal complexity that Melody Jue has termed ‘heterochronicity’.

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雨季、海洋本体论和现在的异时性

在本文中，我将表示强降雨（雨量）的气象术语汇总为一个概念类别，并探讨其具体的文学维度。我将它与作为物质领域的海洋一起绘制，并通过雨水和海洋作为本期试图探索的海洋和文学生态的载体来思考。我仔细考虑了“海洋人文学科”这一新兴领域的总体轮廓，并特别分析了林赛科伦的毛里求斯小说《兵变》。更一般地说，我反思了地球科学和文学解释的解释学相遇，以及我们如何以这种跨学科的方式思考气候变化和一种被 Melody Jue 称为“异时性”的时间复杂性形式，以及我们如何思考什么术语。