Theorising Literary Islands is an epistemological study of the development of the Robinsonade genre, its ideological functions within contemporary Anglophone cultural thought, and the role of literary and filmic mediation in constructing twentieth and twenty-first century European and American relations with and to the Pacific region.
The Island Trope in Contemporary Robinsonade Narratives
Focusing on the Robinsonade genre, this study explores its ideological implications in contemporary Anglophone culture. It examines how literature and film shape perceptions of the Pacific region and influence European and American relationships with it in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Through an epistemological lens, the book delves into the genre's evolution and its cultural significance, highlighting the interplay between narrative and geopolitical contexts.