Rethinking the Island – serie
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13 produkter
Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking
Toward New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations
Av Michelle Stephens, Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Häftad, 2024
514 kr
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Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking takes as point of departure the insights of Antonio Benítez Rojo, Derek Walcott and Edouard Glissant on how to conceptualize the Caribbean as a space in which networks of islands are constitutive of a particular epistemology or way of thinking. This rich …
Affect, Archive, Archipelago
Puerto Rico’s Sovereign Caribbean Lives
Inbunden, 2022
1414 kr
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Inspired by Édouard Glissant’s and Marta Aponte Alsina’s critical-creative work, this book explores how Puerto Rico’s affective archive of Caribbean relations, from the nineteenth century through the twenty-first, has envisioned and embodied decolonization and sovereignty in relation to the …
Affect, Archive, Archipelago
Puerto Rico’s Sovereign Caribbean Lives
Häftad, 2024
526 kr
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Inspired by Édouard Glissant’s and Marta Aponte Alsina’s critical-creative work, this book explores how Puerto Rico’s affective archive of Caribbean relations, from the nineteenth century through the twenty-first, has envisioned and embodied decolonization and sovereignty in relation to the …
Rethinking Island Methodologies
Av Elaine Stratford, Godfrey Baldacchino m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1555 kr
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Rounding off the “Rethinking the Island” series, this book shares critical and creative insights on the methodologies and associated practices, protocols, and techniques used by those in island studies and allied fields. It explores why and how islands serve powerful analytical ends. Authored by …
Rethinking Island Methodologies
Av Elaine Stratford, Godfrey Baldacchino m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
415 kr
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Rounding off the “Rethinking the Island” series, this book shares critical and creative insights on the methodologies and associated practices, protocols, and techniques used by those in island studies and allied fields. It explores why and how islands serve powerful analytical ends. Authored by …
Poetry and Islands
Materiality and the Creative Imagination
Inbunden, 2018
1788 kr
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In all cultures and times, the poetic imagination has fed on the natural attributes of islands. An island is either a destination, or a home, or a place of exile and imprisonment, or simply a place to sojourn. It is an ideal vehicle for journeys treated as allegories, or for acts of finding that …
Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism
Reading Real and Imagined Spaces
Inbunden, 2017
1950 kr
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Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism examines how real and literary islands have helped to shape the idea of the nation in a postcolonial world. Through an analysis of a variety of texts ranging from literature to prison correspondence to tourist questionnaires it exposes the ways in which …
Theorising Literary Islands
The Island Trope in Contemporary Robinsonade Narratives
Av Ian Kinane
Inbunden, 2016
2274 kr
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Theorising Literary Islands is a literary and cultural study of both how and why the trope of the island functions within contemporary popular Robinsonade narratives. It traces the development of Western “islomania” – or our obsession with islands – from its origins in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson …
Theorising Literary Islands
The Island Trope in Contemporary Robinsonade Narratives
Av Ian Kinane
Häftad, 2018
598 kr
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Theorising Literary Islands is a literary and cultural study of both how and why the trope of the island functions within contemporary popular Robinsonade narratives. It traces the development of Western “islomania” – or our obsession with islands – from its origins in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson …
Caribbean Island Movements
Culebra's Transinsularities
Inbunden, 2017
1837 kr
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Caribbean Island Movements explores the different ways in which being mobile is central to the production and reproduction of social identities on the Caribbean island of Culebra. Rather than seeing insularity and mobility, and its associations, as mutually exclusive components, this ethnographic …
Atolls of the Maldives
Nissology and Geography
Av Stefano Malatesta, Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1356 kr
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Beyond the tropical paradise and beyond the fear of climate change effects, the Maldives is a fascinating island country that faces social, cultural, economic and environmental transformations. Atolls of the Maldives: Nissology and Geography provides a spatial analysis on some key challenges the …
Ecocriticism and the Island
Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago
Inbunden, 2023
1465 kr
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Islands have long been the subject of cultural fascination, but in recent decades, they have exerted an increasingly powerful centrifugal force, sending writers to the outer edges of the British-Irish archipelago in search of inspiration and insight. Drawing on contemporary ecocritical approaches, …
Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking
Toward New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations
Av Michelle Stephens, Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Inbunden, 2020
1837 kr
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Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking takes as point of departure the insights of Antonio Benítez Rojo, Derek Walcott and Edouard Glissant on how to conceptualize the Caribbean as a space in which networks of islands are constitutive of a particular epistemology or way of thinking. This rich …
