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Title Islanded identities : constructions of postcolonial cultural insularity / edited by Maeve McCusker and Anthony Soares.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 243 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Cross/cultures ; 139
Cross/cultures ; 139.
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.
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Subject Postcolonialism.
Postcolonialism.
Islands -- Social aspects.
Islands -- Social aspects.
Islands.
Group identity.
Group identity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author McCusker, Maeve.
Soares, Anthony.
Other Form: Print version: Islanded identities. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011 9789042034068 (OCoLC)764302514
ISBN 9789401206938 (electronic book)
9401206937 (electronic book)
9789042034068
9042034068