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Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism examines how real and
literary islands have helped to shape the idea of the nation in a
postcolonial world. Through an analysis of a variety of texts
ranging from literature to prison correspondence to tourist
questionnaires it exposes the ways in which nationalism relies on
fictions of insularity and intactness, which the island and island
tourism appear to provide. The island space seems to offer the
ideal replica of the nation, and tourist practices promise the
liberation of leisure, the gaze, and mobility. However, the very
reliance on the constantly shifting and eroding island form exposes
an anxiety about boundaries and limits on the part of the
postcolonial nation. In appropriating island tourism, the new
nation tends to recapitulate the failures and crises of the
colonial nation before it. Starting with the first literary
tourist, Robinson Crusoe, Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and
Tourism goes on to show how authors such as JM Coetzee, Romesh
Gunesekera, and Julian Barnes have explored the outlines and
implications of islandness. It argues that each text expresses a
profound discomfort with national form by undoing the form of the
island through a variety of narrative strategies and rhetorical
manoeuvres. By throwing the category of the island into crisis,
these texts let uncertainties about the postcolonial nation and its
violent practices emerge as doubt in the narratives themselves.
Finally, in its selection of texts that shuttle between South
Africa, Great Britain, and Sri Lanka, equalizing the former
colonial metropole and its outposts, it offers an alternative
disciplinary mapping of current postcolonial writing.
Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism examines how real and
literary islands have helped to shape the idea of the nation in a
postcolonial world. Through an analysis of a variety of texts
ranging from literature to prison correspondence to tourist
questionnaires it exposes the ways in which nationalism relies on
fictions of insularity and intactness, which the island and island
tourism appear to provide. The island space seems to offer the
ideal replica of the nation, and tourist practices promise the
liberation of leisure, the gaze, and mobility. However, the very
reliance on the constantly shifting and eroding island form exposes
an anxiety about boundaries and limits on the part of the
postcolonial nation. In appropriating island tourism, the new
nation tends to recapitulate the failures and crises of the
colonial nation before it. Starting with the first literary
tourist, Robinson Crusoe, Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and
Tourism goes on to show how authors such as JM Coetzee, Romesh
Gunesekera, and Julian Barnes have explored the outlines and
implications of islandness. It argues that each text expresses a
profound discomfort with national form by undoing the form of the
island through a variety of narrative strategies and rhetorical
manoeuvres. By throwing the category of the island into crisis,
these texts let uncertainties about the postcolonial nation and its
violent practices emerge as doubt in the narratives themselves.
Finally, in its selection of texts that shuttle between South
Africa, Great Britain, and Sri Lanka, equalizing the former
colonial metropole and its outposts, it offers an alternative
disciplinary mapping of current postcolonial writing.
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