A comprehensive historical and theoretical study of the “creolization” process and its relevance to both colonial and postcolonial literatures, this book focuses for the most part on novels from or about the French Caribbean. It examines the ways in which colonial authors such as Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Victor Hugo, as well as such contemporary writers as Édouard Glissant and Daniel Maximin, have represented the process of cultural mixing and (con)fusion to which, under a variety of names (creolization, hybridity, métissage), postcolonial theorists have increasingly turned in order to understand the complexities of cultural identity in today’s transnational world. Notwithstanding the obvious differences separating colonial and postcolonial literatures, Islands and Exiles emphasizes their entanglements, mapping out a middle ground in which they are ambivalently linked to one another. An introductory section shows how colonial and postcolonial literatures are joined in a relation of epistemic complicity that the author designates with the word “post/colonial.” That relation is exemplified by the intertextual links binding together Daniel Defoe’s colonial classic Robinson Crusoe and J. M. Coetzee’s postcolonial rewriting of it, Foe. Subsequent chapters include an analysis of the central text of Enlightenment exoticism, Bernardin’s Paul et Virginie; overviews of Glissant’s novels as well as his theoretical discussions of creolization; an examination of fictional representations of the Haitian revolution (such as Hugo’s Bug-Jargal and William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!); and an extended consideration of nineteenth-century Martiniquan literature and politics. The book concludes with a reading of New Zealander Keri Hulmes’s the bone people, in which the author summarizes his core argument: namely, that in discussions of cultural identity, we need to maintain a fine balance between promoting the hybridizing poetics and politics championed in recent postcolonial theory and (re)asserting the necessity, if not the legitimacy, of the insular, “essentialist” claims about identity that the cross-cultural dynamics of a globally creolized world have definitively put into question.

When the exiled Prince Okisada is poisoned, Sugawara Akitada is called up by the emperor's envoys to investigate.

In I.J. Parker's newest mystery set in eleventh-century Japan, Akitada disguises himself as a prisoner to solve the, murder of a prince As her audience grows with each evocative historical thriller featuring Sugawara Akitada, I. J. Parker returns with a gripping tale of political intrigue and cold-blooded murder in ancient Japan. When the exiled Prince Okisada, the most illustrious prisoner of the penal colony on Sado Island, is poisoned, Akitada is called upon by the emperor's envoys to investigate incognito. Posing as a prisoner, he discovers a deadly conspiracy, only to fall into the hands of brutal guards and disappear. It falls to Tora, Akitada's devoted assistant, to begin his own dangerous search of the island for his lost friend and the truth.

The first comprehensive account of the Irish settlers of Prince Edward Island.

"And it is my dearest hope that your destiny lies here with us-and that with you, we become the Four." Deerface is determined to protect his colony from their sworn enemies, the exiles. Though he is the smallest of his littermates and often overlooked, he is fierce and tenacious in his desire to achieve greatness and atone for the damage left behind by his exiled father. With the help of an unexpected ally, he finds a way forward, but will it be enough to overcome his father's treachery and save his colony? In the tradition of classics such as Watership Down and Redwall, The Power of Four trilogy has rich and spirited characters in a vibrant and fantastical world. Love and humor are ever present, even amidst the trials of triumph and heartbreak. Readers young and old will relate to the ever-complex dynamics of family and community, and will cheer on the adventuresome rabbits as their saga unfolds in this first of three books.

The cultural and social consequences of uprooting island populations are the principal concerns of the anthropologists contributing to this first comparative study of resettled communities. The ten communities chosen for study include migrant groups like the Rotumans in Fiji as well as relocated ones like the people of Bikini Atoll or the Tikopia in the Russell Islands.

The story of a community of children torn from their homes by the Inquisition and their defiant struggle to keep their faith.