UID:
almahu_9947413653402882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 300 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781783085354 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture
Content:
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 imaginaries of European colonisation. It prises apart the tangled web of geography, fantasy, desire and writing that has framed the Western understanding of islands, both their real and material conditions and their symbolic power, 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 mirror. The inter-relationship of the island fantasy, colonial expansion, and the literary construction of place and history, created a new 'man': the dislocated and alienated subject of post-colonial modernity.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).
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Machine generated contents note: 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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781783085347
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781783085354/type/BOOK
URL:
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