Tropical Island Imaginary
This paper opens with a historical survey of the imaginary representation of islands in Western literature and then proceeds to a selective account of the island imaginary in largely ‘middlebrow’ writings and photography about the tropics. Complexities and paradoxes in the significances and semiotic...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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James Cook University
2013-10-01
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Series: | eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics |
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Online Access: | https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3348/3288 |