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Theorising Literary Islands

Ian Kinane · 2018
55/100
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Kinane fills a genuine gap in Robinsonade and postcolonial scholarship, and the argument — that island settings in Western culture carry deep ideological weight around imperialism and individualism — is legitimately interesting. But this is a specialist academic monograph with no mainstream critical presence, and its audience is measured in graduate seminar rooms rather than general bookshelves.

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