Despite the recent archipelagraphic turn in island studies, there have been few literary studies ... more Despite the recent archipelagraphic turn in island studies, there have been few literary studies of the archipelago. This paper has three aims. The first is to bring to light an archipelagraphic literary text that has not yet been explored in Island Studies Journal: Cuban writer Julieta Campos's The Fear of Losing Eurydice. The second is to develop 'archipelagraphy' (a term coined by DeLoughrey) into a methodology for reading literary texts, putting it into practice through an analysis of The Fear of Losing Eurydice. This archipelagraphic analysis reveals that Campos' text destabilizes the concept of the island as tabula rasa, an end-goal in a utopian quest. Instead utopia emerges as a call uttered by multiple voices across different times and spaces, resulting in the 'archipelago of desire' motif. This emancipatory cartography remaps western geographies of centre and periphery, instead stressing the connections between the Caribbean, Asia, Europe, and Africa. The paper's final aim is to provide a working definition of an archipelagraphic text.
Despite the recent archipelagraphic turn in island studies, there have been few literary studies ... more Despite the recent archipelagraphic turn in island studies, there have been few literary studies of the archipelago. This paper has three aims. The first is to bring to light an archipelagraphic literary text that has not yet been explored in Island Studies Journal: Cuban writer Julieta Campos's The Fear of Losing Eurydice. The second is to develop 'archipelagraphy' (a term coined by DeLoughrey) into a methodology for reading literary texts, putting it into practice through an analysis of The Fear of Losing Eurydice. This archipelagraphic analysis reveals that Campos' text destabilizes the concept of the island as tabula rasa, an end-goal in a utopian quest. Instead utopia emerges as a call uttered by multiple voices across different times and spaces, resulting in the 'archipelago of desire' motif. This emancipatory cartography remaps western geographies of centre and periphery, instead stressing the connections between the Caribbean, Asia, Europe, and Africa. The paper's final aim is to provide a working definition of an archipelagraphic text.
This thesis writes back against the representation of the island in colonial discourse as a tabul... more This thesis writes back against the representation of the island in colonial discourse as a tabula rasa, easily possessed and inscribed. In colonial narratives island possession also emerges as explicitly gendered: the male castaway seeks to control the permissive, feminised territory of the island. It is this interpretation of the island, this gendered process of possession and inscription, that my thesis interrogates and subverts. My critical thesis is an analysis of Robinson Crusoe and three of its revisionary texts –– J M Coetzee’s Foe, Jane Gardam’s Crusoe’s Daughter and Julieta Campos’ The Fear of Losing Eurydice. I conduct a ‘ground-clearing’ exercise of Robinson Crusoe, critically remapping the island from a tabula rasa to an embodied construction of appetite and desire. My analysis of Foe and Crusoe’s Daughter explores how the texts’ women protagonists navigate the masculine terrain of Crusoe’s island, and how their authors negotiate an intertextual relationship with Robins...
Despite the recent archipelagraphic turn in island studies, there have been few literary studies ... more Despite the recent archipelagraphic turn in island studies, there have been few literary studies of the archipelago. This paper has three aims. The first is to bring to light an archipelagraphic literary text that has not yet been explored in Island Studies Journal: Cuban writer Julieta Campos's The Fear of Losing Eurydice. The second is to develop 'archipelagraphy' (a term coined by DeLoughrey) into a methodology for reading literary texts, putting it into practice through an analysis of The Fear of Losing Eurydice. This archipelagraphic analysis reveals that Campos' text destabilizes the concept of the island as tabula rasa, an end-goal in a utopian quest. Instead utopia emerges as a call uttered by multiple voices across different times and spaces, resulting in the 'archipelago of desire' motif. This emancipatory cartography remaps western geographies of centre and periphery, instead stressing the connections between the Caribbean, Asia, Europe, and Africa. The paper's final aim is to provide a working definition of an archipelagraphic text.
Despite the recent archipelagraphic turn in island studies, there have been few literary studies ... more Despite the recent archipelagraphic turn in island studies, there have been few literary studies of the archipelago. This paper has three aims. The first is to bring to light an archipelagraphic literary text that has not yet been explored in Island Studies Journal: Cuban writer Julieta Campos's The Fear of Losing Eurydice. The second is to develop 'archipelagraphy' (a term coined by DeLoughrey) into a methodology for reading literary texts, putting it into practice through an analysis of The Fear of Losing Eurydice. This archipelagraphic analysis reveals that Campos' text destabilizes the concept of the island as tabula rasa, an end-goal in a utopian quest. Instead utopia emerges as a call uttered by multiple voices across different times and spaces, resulting in the 'archipelago of desire' motif. This emancipatory cartography remaps western geographies of centre and periphery, instead stressing the connections between the Caribbean, Asia, Europe, and Africa. The paper's final aim is to provide a working definition of an archipelagraphic text.
This thesis writes back against the representation of the island in colonial discourse as a tabul... more This thesis writes back against the representation of the island in colonial discourse as a tabula rasa, easily possessed and inscribed. In colonial narratives island possession also emerges as explicitly gendered: the male castaway seeks to control the permissive, feminised territory of the island. It is this interpretation of the island, this gendered process of possession and inscription, that my thesis interrogates and subverts. My critical thesis is an analysis of Robinson Crusoe and three of its revisionary texts –– J M Coetzee’s Foe, Jane Gardam’s Crusoe’s Daughter and Julieta Campos’ The Fear of Losing Eurydice. I conduct a ‘ground-clearing’ exercise of Robinson Crusoe, critically remapping the island from a tabula rasa to an embodied construction of appetite and desire. My analysis of Foe and Crusoe’s Daughter explores how the texts’ women protagonists navigate the masculine terrain of Crusoe’s island, and how their authors negotiate an intertextual relationship with Robins...
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