Island paradise : : the myth : an examination of contemporary Caribbean and Sri Lankan writing / / Melanie A. Murray.
A colonial discourse has perpetuated the literary notion of islands as paradisal. This study explores how the notions of island paradise have been represented in European literature, the oral and literary indigenous traditions of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka, a colonial literary influence in these is...
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| Superior document: | Cross cultures ; 113 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2009. |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/Cultures
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 226 pages). |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Islands and the Paradise Myth
- Gardening and Conquest: Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place, My Garden (book):, and Among Flowers
- Islands and Self-Discovery: Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef and Heaven’s Edge
- The Garden as England’s ‘Islanded Self’: Jean Arasanayagam’s Colonizer/Colonized, “I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes,” “The Witness,” and “The Garden Party”
- Empire and the House: Lawrence Scott’s Witchbroom, Romesh Gunesekera’s The Sandglass, and Jean Arasanayagam’s “Time the Destroyer”
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index.