Elizabeth Mcmahon

Islands, Identity and the Literary Imagination (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Australia is the planet's sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how the fluctuating definition of the island continent throws new light on the relationship between islands and continents in the mapping of modernity. The book links the historical and geographical conditions of islands with their potent role in the imaginary of European colonisation. It prises apart the tangled web of geography, fantasy, desire and writing that has framed the Western understanding of islands: their real and material conditions and their symbolic resonance from antiquity into globalised modernity. The book also traces how this spatial imaginary has shaped the modern 'man' who is imagined as being the island's natural inhabitant or mirror. Importantly, the book challenges these habits of thought by their relocation within larger topological and imaginary visions from islanders themsleves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783085361
• Artikelnr.: 45962372

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth McMahon

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1. Islands Real and Imaginary
Introduction
Chapter One. What's in a Metaphor: 'No Man is an Island'
Section 2. Islands: Making the Planet, World, Globe
Chapter Two: The First and Last Of New Worlds: The Caribbean and Australia
Chapter Three: Insular and Continental Interiors: The Shifting Map of Literary Universalism after the War
Section 3. Dreams and Nightmares
Chapter Four: Accidents of Empire: Shipwrecks and Castaways
Chapter Five: The Best and Worst of Times: Utopias, Dystopias, Archipelagos.