Islanded identities : constructions of postcolonial cultural insularity / / edited by Maeve McCusker and Anthony Soares.
The island, because of its supposed isolation, and its apparent small scale, has historically been a privileged site of colonial aggression and acquisitiveness. Yet the island has also been imagined as a uniquely sovereign space, and thus one in which the colonial enterprise can be seen as especiall...
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| Superior document: | Cross/cultures ; 139 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | xxviii, 243 p., [4] p. of plates :; ill. (some col.). |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Island Theory: The Antipodes / Matthew Boyd Goldie
- Writing Against the Tide?: Patrick Chamoiseau’s (Is)land Imaginary / Maeve Mccusker
- A Distinctive Disaster Literature: Montserrat Island Poetry under Pressure / Jonathan Skinner
- Rethinking Identity and Belonging: ‘Mauritianness’ in the Work of Ananda Devi / Ritu Tyagi
- From Slave to Tourist Entertainer: Performative Negotiations of Identity and Difference in Mauritius / Burkhard Schnepel and Cornelia Schnepel
- “Amid the Alien Corn”: British India as Human Island / Ralph Crane
- Journalism and Identity: The Red-Top Hangover and Erosions of ‘Island Mentality’ in Postcolonial Ireland / Mark Wehrly
- Western Blood in an Eastern Island: Affective Identities in Timor-Leste / Anthony Soares
- “No Man is an Island”: National Literary Canons, Writers, and Readers / Lyn Innes
- Impure Islands: Europe and a Post-Imperial Polity / Paulo de Medeiros
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.