Islands in history and representation. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rod Edmond, Vanessa Smith.
• Editors: Edmond, Rod; Smith, Vanessa (Vanessa Jane)
• Contents: List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Editors' introduction -- 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 eighteenthcentury georgic and pastoral poetry /MARKMAN ELLIS -- 4 Bulama and Sierra Leone: utopian islands and visionary interiors /DEIRDRE COLEMAN -- 5 Pacific island encounters and the German invention of race /VANESSA AGNEW -- 6 Cook in Tonga: terms of trade /HARRIET GUEST -- 7 Pitcairn's 'guilty stock': the island as breeding ground /VANESSA SMITH -- 8 Abject bodies / abject sites: leper islands in the high imperial era /ROD EDMOND -- 9 Derek Walcott's Omeros: representing St Lucia, re-presenting Homer /ROGER MOSS -- 10 The island of wandering souls: processes of creolisation, politics of emancipation and the problematic of absence on Reunion Island /FRANQOISE VERGES -- 11 God save the Falklands: postcolonial geographies of the Falklands /Malvinas /KLAUS DODDS -- 12 The gilded cage: from utopia to monad in Australia's island Imaginary /ELIZABETH MCMAHON -- 13 Afterword /GREG DENING -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 909.0942; Colonies -- History; Decolonization -- History; Postcolonialism -- History; Islands of the Atlantic -- History; Islands of the Indian Ocean -- History; Islands of the Pacific -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000143119
• Related ISBNs: 9781000100808; 9781000117752; 9781003060260
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