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Proceedings from an International Conference
Charlottetown, Prince
Edward Island, Canada
June 28–30, 1998 Islands as refuge; islands
as prison. Islands as paradise; islands as hell. From Robinson Crusoe's island
to The Island of the Colorblind, in works by writers from Shakespeare to Alistair
MacLeod, islands continue to serve as powerful metaphors in world literature.
In June 1998, Prince Edward Island hosted the first ever international
conference and literary festival on the literature of small islands. Message
in a Bottle features fifteen of the fifty papers first presented at the conference,
including essays representing Oceania and Tasmania, the Mediterranean and the
Caribbean, the Isle of Man and Iceland, Atlantic Canada and Prince Edward Island.
Message in a Bottle is an important contribution to the burgeoning field
of "Island studies." TRADE PAPERBACK • 284 pp • ISBN 0–919013–33–3
•$19.95
CONTENTS OF MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
Imagination
Settler Calibans in John Murrell's New World; M. Houlahan
Crooked Signs
and Shining Things: The Magic of Books in the Literature of Atlantic Canadian
Islands; B. MacLaine
Literary Cartographies in Oceania; J. Ellis Exploration
Eddas and Sagas on an Island: Memories of an Age of Exploration Boiled in a Cultural
Melting Pot; G. Sigurdsson
"A Second Creation": In Search of the
Island of the Colorblind; P. Gabilondo
"An oblivion that knows its limits":
James Merill on Santorini; M. Soltan Emigration
"I'm
saddest when I sing": Songs of 19th-Century Emigration in the Isle of Man;
F. Bazin
World Apart: Language and Character in The Playboy of the Western
World and Au coeur de la rose; G. Nichols
"The meaning of a' Island":
Paradoxical Space in Writing by Authors from the Caribbean; P. Srebrnik
The
Land and the Language: Derek Walcott and St. Lucia; R. Hanford Home
Sir Andrew Macphail and Prince Edward Island as a Way of Life: A Canadian Critic
of Industrialization; I. R. Robertson
Writing and Rewriting the Island: Tasmania,
Politics, and Contemporary Australian Fiction; F. Polack
Dialect and Island
Identity in Three Contemporary Hawai'i Writers; A. Reevesman
L. M. Montgomery's
Emily Series and the Aftermath of the Great War; G. Ceraldi
The Iconography
of Islands: Margaret Atwood and L. M. Montgomery; E. Waterston | 
