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Islanded identities : constructions of postcolonial cultural insularity /

The island, because of its supposed isolation, and its apparent small scale, has historically been a privileged site of colonial aggression and acquisitiveness. Yet the island has also been imagined as a uniquely sovereign space, and thus one in which the colonial enterprise can be seen as especiall...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McCusker, Maeve, Soares, Anthony
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 139.
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505 0 0 |t Island theory : the Antipodes /  |t Matthew Boyd Goldie --  |t Writing against the tide? Patrick Chamoiseau's (is)land imaginary /  |r Maeve McCusker --  |t A distinctive disaster literature : Montserrat Island poetry under pressure /  |r Jonathan Skinner --  |t Rethinking identity and belonging : "Mauritianness" in the work of Ananda Devi /  |r Ritu Tyagi --  |t From slave to tourist entertainer : performative negotiations of identity and difference in Mauritius /  |r Burkhard Schnepel and Cornelia Scnhepel --  |t "Amid the alien corn" : British India as human island /  |r Ralph Crane --  |t Journalism and identity : the red-top hangover and erosions of "island mentality" in postcolonial Ireland /  |r Mark Wehrly --  |t Western blood in an eastern island : affective identities in Timor-Leste /  |r Anthony Soares --  |t "No man is an island" : national literary canons, writers, and readers /  |r Lyn Innes --  |t Impure islands : Europe and a post-imperial polity /  |r Paulo de Medeiros. 
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