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| Zusammenfassung: | "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 imaginary of European colonisation. It prises apart the tangled web of geography, fantasy, desire and writing that has framed the Western understanding of islands: their real and material conditions and their symbolic resonance 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 natural inhabitant or mirror. Importantly, the book challenges these habits of thought by their relocation within larger topological and imaginary visions from islanders themsleves"... |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
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
DIESES SCHRIFTSTCK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Section 1. Islands Real and Imaginary
Introduction 3
Chapter 1. What’s in a Metaphor: ‘No Man Is an Island’ 19
Section 2. Islands: Making the Planet, World, Globe
Chapter 2. The First and Last of New Worlds: The Caribbean
and Australia 47
Chapter 3. Insular and Continental Interiors: The Shifting
Map of Literary Universalism after the War 87
Section 3. Dreams and Nightmares
Chapter 4. Accidents of Empire: Shipwrecks and Castaways 133
Chapter 5. The Best and Worst of Times: Utopias, Dystopias,
Archipelagos 177
Appendix. Colonial Ties betimen the West Indies and Australia 205
Notes 253
Works Cited 261
Index 289
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