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Download or read book Islanded Identities written by Maeve McCusker and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.