Islands in History and Representation 1st Edition by Rod Edmond, Vanessa Smith 9781003060260 1003060269
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ISBN 10: 1003060269
ISBN 13: 9781003060260
Author: Rod Edmond; Vanessa Smith
This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continentals. This study considers how island dwellers conceived of themselves and their relation to proximate mainlands, and examines the fascination that islands have long held in the European imagination. The collection addresses the significance of islands in the Atlantic economy of the eighteenth century, the exploration of the Pacific, the important role played by islands in the process of decolonisation, and island-oriented developments in postcolonial writing. Islands were often seen as natural colonies or settings for ideal communities but they were also used as dumping grounds for the unwanted, a practice which has continued into the twentieth century. The collection argues the need for an island-based theory within postcolonial studies and suggests how this might be constructed. Covering a historical span from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the contributors include literary and postcolonial critics, historians and geographers.
Table of contents:
1 Taking history offshore: Atlantic islands in European minds, 1400-1800
2 Island bounds
3 ‘The cane-land isles’: commerce and empire in late eighteenth-century georgic and pastoral poetry
4 Bulama and Sierra Leone: Utopian islands and visionary interiors
5 Pacific island encounters and the German invention of race
6 Cook in Tonga: terms of trade
7 Pitcairn’s ‘guilty stock’: the island as breeding ground
8 Abject bodies/abject sites: leper islands in the high imperial era
9 Derek Walcott’s Omeros: representing St Lucia, re-presenting Homer
10 The island of wandering souls: processes of creolisation, politics of emancipation and the problematic of absence on Reunion Island
11 God save the Falklands: postcolonial geographies of the Falklands/Malvinas
12 The gilded cage: from utopia to monad in Australia’s island imaginary
13 Afterword
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