Kneale, J;
(2017)
Islands: Literary geographies of possession, separation, and transformation.
In: Tally, RT, (ed.)
The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space.
(pp. 204-213).
Routledge: London, UK.
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Abstract
Fictional islands are distinctive, significant literary geographies. This chapter explores these sites by way of a consideration of 'island theory' and Mikhail Bakhtin's discussions of the chronotope. It considers Bakhtin's chronotope as a framework for understanding these themes as elements of a literary geography. Postcolonial criticism has considered the fictional island as property, a space known, claimed and governed by "the warrior-explorer-engineer-administrator-imperial paladin" familiar from colonial adventure stories. David Floyd notes that the subjugation of a fictional island requires "rituals of possession", surveys, mappings, and other attempts to know the island and thus impose order upon it. Orphanhood implies separation, but it also suggests a link with the orphan's origins, with those that they have been separated from. This relative or partial separation is also what makes the island, literary or otherwise, an ideal laboratory, a site for transformation. Bakhtin's work on the chronotope offers a reading of islands that stresses their significance in space and time.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Islands: Literary geographies of possession, separation, and transformation |
| ISBN-13: | 9781138816350 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781315745978-20 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315745978-20 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Literary Cartographies, Literary Geographical, Critical Literary Geographers, Spatial Turn, Ballantyne’s Coral Island, Literary GIS, Digital Literary, Foucault’s Heterotopia, Geocritical Approaches, Geographical Information Systems, Imaginative Geography, Fictional Islands, Spatial Humanities, Spatial Literary Studies, Island Narratives, Geospatial Technologies, Island Space, Zoo City, Humanity GIS |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10070744 |
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