Islands in history and representation

Islands in history and representation /

"This 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 of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans conceived of themselves and their relations to proximate mainlands,...

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Other Authors: Edmond, Rod, Smith, Vanessa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Series:Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 6.
Subjects:
Colonies > History.
Decolonization > History.
Postcolonialism > History.
Islands > History.
Colonies.
Decolonization.
Postcolonialism.
Islands.
Islands of the Atlantic > History.
Islands of the Indian Ocean > History.
Islands of the Pacific > History.
Atlantic Ocean > Islands of the Atlantic.
Indian Ocean > Islands of the Indian Ocean.
Pacific Ocean > Islands of the Pacific.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Taking history offshore: Atlantic islands in European minds, 1400-1800 / John R. Gillis
  • 2. Island bounds / Gillian Beer
  • 3. 'The cane-land isles': commerce and empire in late eighteenth-century georgic and pastoral poetry / Markman Ellis
  • 4. Bulama and Sierra Leone: utopian islands and visionary interiors / Deirdre Coleman

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