Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 243 pages) : illustrations. |
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Series |
Cross/cultures ; 139
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Cross/cultures ; 139.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Island theory : the Antipodes / Matthew Boyd Goldie -- Writing against the tide? Patrick Chamoiseau's (is)land imaginary / Maeve McCusker -- A distinctive disaster literature : Montserrat Island poetry under pressure / Jonathan Skinner -- Rethinking identity and belonging : "Mauritianness" in the work of Ananda Devi / Ritu Tyagi -- 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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Postcolonialism.
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Postcolonialism. |
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Islands -- Social aspects.
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Islands -- Social aspects. |
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Islands. |
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Group identity.
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Group identity. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
McCusker, Maeve.
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Soares, Anthony.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Islanded identities. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011 9789042034068 (OCoLC)764302514 |
ISBN |
9789401206938 (electronic book) |
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9401206937 (electronic book) |
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9789042034068 |
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9042034068 |
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