Islands in Literature

T he irresistible and eternal attraction of an island has surfaced in literature as a varied range of tropes : the domain of strange fantastic creatures, flora and fauna, an 'Other' since the ancient times; epitome of the charm of the distant in the romantic era;real geographical spaces since the era of sea-voyaging, discovery and re-mapping of islands; with the emergence of imperialism new meanings arising from the new imperial discourse; in the postcolonial era the islanders themselves 'writin