Islanded identities constructions of postcolonial cultural insularity / edited by Maeve McCusker and Anthony Soares.

Other author McCusker, Maeve.
Other author Soares, Anthony.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; New York : Rodopi,
Descriptionxxviii, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesCross/cultures ; 139
Cross/cultures ; 139. ^A691263
Contents 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 Scnhepel -- "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographic references and index.
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LCCN 2011278298
ISBN9789042034068
ISBN9042034068
ISBN9789401206938 (ebook)
ISBN9401206937 (ebook)

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