The Island as Site of Resistance - An Examination of Caribbean and New Zealand Texts

The island is a prominent figure of enclosure in literature, often related to issues of power and control, and therefore to colonialism. After exploring several postcolonial readings of Shakespeare's The Tempest , this study examines the challenge to imperialist island discourse in such New Zealand and Caribbean texts as Katherine Mansfield's stories and Derek Walcott's Pantomime . It also makes a considerable contribution to the field of postcolonial studies by suggesting shared strategies of resistance in distinct geographical and cultural contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy F Lane, Dorothy F. Lane
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1995
• EAN: 9780820426426
• ISBN: 978-0-8204-2642-6
• No. of pages: 181
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Studies of World Literature in English; Studies of World Literature in English
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies