Islands in History and Representation - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415418577 ISBN 13: 9780415418577

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2006

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

Rod Edmond was born and grew up in New Zealand. Following graduate work at Oxford University he is currently a Reader in Nineteenth Century and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent. He has published on Victorian and Modernist literature, contemporary Pacific and New Zealand writing and extensively in the field of Eighteenth - Twentieth Century Colonial Discourse Studies. He is the author of Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse From Cook to Gauguin (1997) and is currently completing a book on colonialism and disease, with particular reference to leprosy.
Vanessa Smith is an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow in the School of English, Art History, Film and Media at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters (1998) and co-editor, with Jonathan Lamb and Nicholas Thomas, of Exploration and Exchange: A South Seas Anthology 1680-1900 (2000).

Contenuti:

Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith Introduction

1. John R. Gillis Taking History Offshore: Islands and Continents in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World

2. Gillian Beer Island Bounds

3. Markman Ellis 'The Cane-Land Isles': Commerce and Empire in Late Eighteenth Century Georgic and Pastoral Poetry

4. Deirdre Coleman Bulama and Sierra Leone: Utopian Islands and Visionary Interiors

5. Vanessa Agnew Pacific Island Encounters and the German Invention of Race

6. Harriet Guest Cook in Tonga: Terms of Trade

7. Vanessa Smith Pitcairn's 'Guilty Stock': The Island as Breeding Ground

8. Rod Edmond Islands of Disease: Colonialism and Leprosy

9. Roger Moss Derek Walcott's Omeros: Representing St. Lucia, Re-presenting Homer

10. Françoise Vergès The Island of Wandering Souls: Processes of Creolization, Politics of Emancipation and the Problematic of Absence on Reunion Island

11. Klaus Dodds God Save the Falklands: Postcolonial Geographies of the Falklands/Malvinas

12. Elizabeth McMahon The Gilded Cage: From Utopia to Monad in Australia's Island Imaginary

Greg Dening Afterword

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0415418577
• ISBN 13: 9780415418577
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 252
• Redattore: Edmond Rod, Smith Vanessa