Rajeev S. Patke is Professor of English at the National University of Singapore, and Professor of Humanities and Director of the Division of Humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. His publications include ‘The Long Poems of Wallace Stevens: An Interpretative Study’ ( 1985, 2009), ‘Postcolonial Poetry in English’ (2006), ‘The Concise Routledge History of Southeast Asian Writing in English’ (2010) co-authored with Philip Holden, and ‘Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies’ (2013). Recent co-edited works include ‘A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires’ (2008), and ‘Southeast Asian Writing in English: A Thematic Anthology’ (2012).

This is a navigational tour-de-force through the poetic imagination responding to the fascination islands have held for literal, literary and virtual travellers from time immemorial. Professor Patke’s scholarship has sailed confidently in deep waters and been wide-ranging in mapping the way writers have inscribed their personal take on islands, giving the reader subtle and incisive insights as varied as the writings examined.

Rajeev S. Patke is Professor of English at the National University of Singapore, and Professor of Humanities and Director of the Division of Humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. His publications include ‘The Long Poems of Wallace Stevens: An Interpretative Study’ ( 1985, 2009), ‘Postcolonial Poetry in English’ (2006), ‘The Concise Routledge History of Southeast Asian Writing in English’ (2010) co-authored with Philip Holden, and ‘Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies’ (2013). Recent co-edited works include ‘A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires’ (2008), and ‘Southeast Asian Writing in English: A Thematic Anthology’ (2012).

This is a navigational tour-de-force through the poetic imagination responding to the fascination islands have held for literal, literary and virtual travellers from time immemorial. Professor Patke’s scholarship has sailed confidently in deep waters and been wide-ranging in mapping the way writers have inscribed their personal take on islands, giving the reader subtle and incisive insights as varied as the writings examined.

Rajeev S. Patke is Professor of English at the National University of Singapore, and Professor of Humanities and Director of the Division of Humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. His publications include ‘The Long Poems of Wallace Stevens: An Interpretative Study’ ( 1985, 2009), ‘Postcolonial Poetry in English’ (2006), ‘The Concise Routledge History of Southeast Asian Writing in English’ (2010) co-authored with Philip Holden, and ‘Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies’ (2013). Recent co-edited works include ‘A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires’ (2008), and ‘Southeast Asian Writing in English: A Thematic Anthology’ (2012).

This is a navigational tour-de-force through the poetic imagination responding to the fascination islands have held for literal, literary and virtual travellers from time immemorial. Professor Patke’s scholarship has sailed confidently in deep waters and been wide-ranging in mapping the way writers have inscribed their personal take on islands, giving the reader subtle and incisive insights as varied as the writings examined.