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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2011.
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| Colección: | Cross/cultures ;
139. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- From slave to tourist entertainer : performative negotiations of identity and difference in Mauritius / Burkhard Schnepel and Cornelia Scnhepel
- "Amid the alien corn" : British India as human island / Ralph Crane
- Journalism and identity : the red-top hangover and erosions of "island mentality" in postcolonial Ireland / Mark Wehrly
- Western blood in an eastern island : affective identities in Timor-Leste / Anthony Soares
- "No man is an island" : national literary canons, writers, and readers / Lyn Innes
- Impure islands : Europe and a post-imperial polity / Paulo de Medeiros.