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Islands and Britishness - A Global Perspective (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Islands and Britishness - A Global Perspective (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Islands and archipelagos hold great imaginative power, and they
have long been a subject of study for cartographers and
geographers, for anthropologists and historians of colonisation.
But what does it mean to be an islander? Can one feel both British
and Manx, for example? What are British tourists looking for when
they go to former island colonies? How do past relationships with
Britain affect islands today? This collection takes a variety of
perspectives to provide answers to such questions, examining war,
empire, tourism, immigration, language, literature, and everyday
life on and in islands, and the question of travel to and from
them. Britishness is highlighted as a global island phenomenon,
providing an insight into the history, culture and politics of
identities from Jersey to Jamaica. Islands and Britishness not only
brings together various contemporary strands in Island Studies, but
uniquely focuses on the relationship - historical, cultural and
economic - between particular islands and Britain, and, crucially,
how this relationship frames national identity both on the island
and in Britain itself. The collection examines interactions between
Britishness and indigenous or earlier invasive/settler cultures, as
well as the internal differences within the concept of
'Britishness' (Britain/Scotland/Shetland, for instance). It
considers the relationship played out on the island between
Britishness and the other nationalities with which the islands
share an affinity, and questions received wisdoms about national
identity on the islands by considering intersecting discourses such
as class and gender. The collection offers a global perspective on
the divisions within a notion of Britishness and the identities
against which Britishness has been constructed.
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