Subversion of the Obvious and the Dominant: Blue Humanities, Conservation, and Feminine Agency in Mrs Caliban and The Shape of Water

‘Blue Humanities’in essence concentrates on the human relationship with water. The central aim of this scholarship isthe recognition of the aquatic in its distinct identity and power, and not as dependent on orcatering to the human entity. The present paper attempts to accommodate Blue Humanities into the popular culture medium of cinema, even as it reads a printed text, Mrs Caliban, to reinforce the idea of water and its identity as a separate existence. The Blue Humanities project therefore destabilises traditional linear rubrics and introduces wet ontologies, revising the meaning and limitedness of the representation of geography in fiction and media. The insertion of the feminine as agency and saviour in both the film and the text in consideration for my study, reaffirms the inevitability of a major change in perspective to broaden the spatial limits of literature.