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Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism
Reading Real and Imagined SpacesRethinking the Island
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44,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Rowman & Littlefield International |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 11.07.2017 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781783486472 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 226 |
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<span><span>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 nationalism relies on fictions of insularity and intactness, which the island and island tourism appear to provide. The island space seems to offer the ideal replica of the nation, and tourist practices promise the liberation of leisure, the gaze, and mobility. However, the very reliance on the constantly shifting and eroding island form exposes an anxiety about boundaries and limits on the part of the postcolonial nation. In appropriating island tourism, the new nation tends to recapitulate the failures and crises of the colonial nation before it. </span></span>
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<span><span>Starting with the first literary tourist, Robinson Crusoe, Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism goes on to show how authors such as JM Coetzee, Romesh Gunesekera, and Julian Barnes have explored the outlines and implications of islandness. It argues that each text expresses a profound discomfort with national form by undoing the form of the island through a variety of narrative strategies and rhetorical manoeuvres. By throwing the category of the island into crisis, these texts let uncertainties about the postcolonial nation and its violent practices emerge as doubt in the narratives themselves. Finally, in its selection of texts that shuttle between South Africa, Great Britain, and Sri Lanka, equalizing the former colonial metropole and its outposts, it offers an alternative disciplinary mapping of current postcolonial writing.</span></span>
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<span><span>Starting with the first literary tourist, Robinson Crusoe, Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism goes on to show how authors such as JM Coetzee, Romesh Gunesekera, and Julian Barnes have explored the outlines and implications of islandness. It argues that each text expresses a profound discomfort with national form by undoing the form of the island through a variety of narrative strategies and rhetorical manoeuvres. By throwing the category of the island into crisis, these texts let uncertainties about the postcolonial nation and its violent practices emerge as doubt in the narratives themselves. Finally, in its selection of texts that shuttle between South Africa, Great Britain, and Sri Lanka, equalizing the former colonial metropole and its outposts, it offers an alternative disciplinary mapping of current postcolonial writing.</span></span>
<span><span>Considers how real island spaces have been used in literary texts and the popular imagination to shore up the fiction of the nation in order to offer a new theory of postcolonial nationalism.</span></span>
<span><span>Introduction: On Violence and Visuality / Chapter I. A Literature of Failure: Reading Foe and Defoe / Chapter II. On Seeing England for the First Time (Again) / Chapter III. “A New Kind of Safari”: Gunesekera’s Sri Lanka / Chapter IV. The Rim of Things / Chapter V. “Every Native Would Like a Tour”</span></span>
<span><span>Helen Kapstein</span><span> is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College, CUNY. </span></span>
<span><span>Offers a new theory of postcolonial national formation, making a real contribution to the conversation.</span></span>
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<span><span>Engages with novels including Defoe’s </span><span>Robinson Crusoe</span><span>, Barnes’ </span><span>England, England</span><span>, Gunsekera’s </span><span>The Sandglass</span><span> and Raban’s </span><span>Coasting.</span></span>
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<span><span>Explores geographical contexts in England, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the Falklands.</span></span>
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<span><span>Engages with novels including Defoe’s </span><span>Robinson Crusoe</span><span>, Barnes’ </span><span>England, England</span><span>, Gunsekera’s </span><span>The Sandglass</span><span> and Raban’s </span><span>Coasting.</span></span>
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<span><span>Explores geographical contexts in England, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the Falklands.</span></span>
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