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Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca Anne.

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Empire islands: Castaways, cannibals, and fantasies of masculine incorporation in post/colonial island narratives (William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, R. M. Ballantyne, Derek Walcott, St. Lucia).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Empire islands: Castaways, cannibals, and fantasies of masculine incorporation in post/colonial island narratives (William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, R. M. Ballantyne, Derek Walcott, St. Lucia)./
Author:	Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca Anne.
Description:	336 p.
Notes:	Director: Dana D. Nelson.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-08A.
Subject:	Literature, Caribbean. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3062666

Empire islands: Castaways, cannibals, and fantasies of masculine incorporation in post/colonial island narratives (William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, R. M. Ballantyne, Derek Walcott, St. Lucia).
Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca Anne.

Empire islands: Castaways, cannibals, and fantasies of masculine incorporation in post/colonial island narratives (William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, R. M. Ballantyne, Derek Walcott, St. Lucia). - 336 p.

Director: Dana D. Nelson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kentucky, 2002.

This study explores a 500 year range of island narratives, from early colonial texts, like Shakespeare's <italic>The Tempest</italic> and Defoe's <italic> Robinson Crusoe</italic>; through centuries of popular imitations and adaptations, such as Ballantyne's <italic>The Coral Island</italic>; to more recent post-colonial revisions written in the name of resistance, like Walcott's <italic>Pantomime </italic>. I argue that writers found the island appealing for their stories of colonization because its tangible borders mirror perceptions of the male body as naturally bounded and controlled. Imagining the potential colony as an island allows the fictional colonist (and reader) to play out a fantasy of natural colonial authority. By viewing, mapping, naming and domesticating the island, the fictional colonist psychically incorporates it, feeling himself in command of his island colony because he imagines taking it into his body and disciplining it as he does his body. Thus, the colonist maps the island as a male body, not a female body, as other critics argue.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, Caribbean.

Empire islands: Castaways, cannibals, and fantasies of masculine incorporation in post/colonial island narratives (William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, R. M. Ballantyne, Derek Walcott, St. Lucia).
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520 $a Stories of cannibals, pirates and “going native,” as I show in the dissertation's middle section, play out threats of loss of control on the colonist's body, enabling the literature to manage anxieties as well as desires of empire. While stories of the castaway's successful defense of his body and island from cannibals helped to assuage fears of indigenous rebellion, plots of the defense against pirates helped to manage fears of competing colonizers. The dissertation's final two chapters examine texts of resistance. Chapter five focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth-century plays and burlesque pantomimes that subvert the island fantasy by parodying it, and the final chapter focusing on the many twentieth-century post-colonial novels that resist by rewriting the island fantasy from the perspective of the colonized. As an afterword, I discuss the many twentieth-century U.S. produced castaway films, arguing that they present a neo-imperial island fantasy of cultural and economic (not political) colonization.
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