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This book explores a wide selection of island-themed creative non-fiction, offering new insights into the ways in which authors negotiate existing cultural tropes of the island while offering their own distinctive articulations of "islandness." The book represents an important intervention into both island literary studies and ecocriticism.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction
PART I: APPROACHING THE ISLAND
1 Taking the 'Good Step' in Tim Robinson's Stones of Aran
2 The 'World-Hungry Art of Words': Tim Robinson's Formal Dialectic
PART II: MATERIAL IMMERSION
3 'The Past Is Too Much with Us': Material Remains in Brenda Chamberlain's Tide-race
4 The Living Island: Christine Evans' Bardsey
PART III: THE ISLAND ASSEMBLAGE
5 W. G. Sebald's Orfordness: Rewriting the Romantic Island
6 Reading Things: Sebald's Melancholy Resistance
PART IV: ARCHIPELAGIC REFRACTION
7 Stories from the 'Heart of the World': Stephen Watts' Republic of Dogs/Republic of Birds
8 Thoughts of Home: Amy Liptrot's The Outrun
PART V: ISLANDS AT THE EDGE
9 'Signs of Strangeness': the guga Hunt in Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways and the Plastic Doll's Head in Kathleen Jamie's 'Findings'
10 From the Stone Age to the Age of Satellites: Anthropocene Islands
Epilogue: Archipelagic Ecocriticism
Bibliography
Index
About the Autho
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Brandon K. Watson is the academic assistant for systematic theology at the Protestant University Wuppertal and a researcher at Heidelberg University.
Zusammenfassung
This book explores a wide selection of island-themed creative non-fiction, offering new insights into the ways in which authors negotiate existing cultural tropes of the island while offering their own distinctive articulations of “islandness.” The book represents an important intervention into both island literary studies and ecocriticism.
