Islanded Identities : Constructions of Postcolonial Cultural Insularity

Preliminary Material -- 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 Schnepel -- “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 -- Notes On Contributors -- Index.