Atlantic Islands in the Americas

J. Zimmermann / E. Winkler: Introduction – Islands in Canada and the Northern US – T. Kugland: Bringing the War Back Home Manhattan as Heterotopia in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises and Brian Wood’s DMZ – M. Kürschner: Colonizing Mental Islands: Insularity and Insanity in Shutter Island – M. Moss: Beechey Island: The Arctic “Heart of Darkness” – Islands in the American South – J. Zimmermann: Sullivan’s Island in Antebellum Southern Literature: William Gilmore Simms’s “The Passage of Arms at ‘76” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” – B. Röckl: Beyond the Borders of the Modern World: The Function of the Island in Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day – Islands in the Caribbean – T. Riis: Lucie Hørlyk, a Danish Caribbean Writer in Historical Context – F. Desler: Exploring Other Spaces: Lucie Hørlyk’s West Indian Narratives and the Danish-Caribbean Island Experience – E. Keynes: Puerto Rico: “The World’s Oldest Colony”? – Fictional Islands – E. Winkler: “This is no ordinary place”: The Island in the Television Show Lost – M. Conrad: Post-Apocalyptic Islands: Survival in 21st-Century Film and Literature – D. Schäbler: The Island as Frontier: Digital Insular Visions, Genre Innovations, and Border Crossings