Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Island Theory - The Antipodes -- Writing Against the Tide? - Patrick Chamoiseau's (Is)land Imaginary -- A Distinctive Disaster Literature - Montserrat Island Poetry under Pressure -- Rethinking Identity and Belonging - 'Mauritianness' in the Work of Ananda Devi -- From Slave to Tourist Entertainer - Performative Negotiations of Identity and Difference in Mauritius -- "Amid the Alien Corn" - British India as Human Island -- Journalism and Identity - The Red-Top Hangover and Erosions of 'Island Mentality' in Postcolonial Ireland -- Western Blood in an Eastern Island - Affective Identities in Timor-Leste -- "No Man is an Island" - National Literary Canons, Writers, and Readers -- Impure Islands - Europe and a Post-Imperial Polity -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.