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Islands in History and Representation (Paperback)
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Islands in History and Representation (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
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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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