Island Paradise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Island Paradise write by Melanie A. Murray. This book was released on 2009. Island Paradise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A colonial discourse has perpetuated the literary notion of islands as paradisal. This study explores how the notions of island paradise have been represented in European literature, the oral and literary indigenous traditions of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka, a colonial literary influence in these islands, and the literary experience after independence in these nations. Persistent themes of colonial narratives foreground the aesthetic and ignore the workforce in a representation of island space as idealized, insular, and vulnerable to conquest; an ideal space for management and control. English landscape has been replicated in islands through literature and in reality - the 'Great House' being an ideological symbol of power. Island Paradise: The Myth investigates how these entrenched notions of paradise, which islands have traditionally represented metonymically, are contested in the works of four postcolonial authors: Jamaica Kincaid, Lawrence Scott, Romesh Gunesekera, and Jean Arasanayagam, from the island nations of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka. It analyzes texts which focus on gardens, island space, and houses to examine how these motifs are used to re-vision colonial/contested sites. This book examines the relationship between landscape and identity and, with reference to Homi K. Bhabha, considers how these writers offer an alternative space for negotiating the ambivalence of hybridity.
Rat Island
Rat Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rat Island write by William Stolzenburg. This book was released on 2011-06-28. Rat Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles the highly controversial practice of rescuing endangered island species by killing their predators, explaining how rats and other animals introduced to the Bering Sea midway by shipwrecks have decimated native bird populations.
Surviving Paradise
Surviving Paradise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surviving Paradise write by Peter Rudiak-Gould. This book was released on 2009. Surviving Paradise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Just one month after his 21st birthday, Peter Rudiak-Gould moved to Ujae, a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands located 70 miles from the nearest telephone, car, store, or tourist, and 2,000 miles from the closest continent. He spent the next year there, living among its 450 inhabitants and teaching English to its schoolchildren. At first blush, Surviving Paradise is a thoughtful and laugh-out-loud hilarious documentation of Rudiak-Gould’s efforts to cope with daily life on Ujae as his idealistic expectations of a tropical paradise confront harsh reality. But Rudiak-Gould goes beyond the personal, interweaving his own story with fascinating political, linguistic, and ecological digressions about the Marshall Islands. Most poignant are his observations of the noticeable effect of global warming on these tiny, low-lying islands and the threat rising water levels pose to their already precarious existence. An Eat, Pray, Love as written by Paul Theroux, Surviving Paradise is a disarmingly lighthearted narrative with a substantive emotional undercurrent.
Paradise Island
Paradise Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paradise Island write by Sam Golbach. This book was released on 2020-11-17. Paradise Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Four best friends—Check. One unforgettable week in Kauai—Check. Sun, surf, and hula girls in bikinis—Check. A creepy mansion on the forbidden side of the island…. Check? Sam and Colby’s vacation in paradise goes from enchanting, to weird, to deadly, when Trey, an old acquaintance, insists they can’t leave without a visit to the legendary Nā Pali Coast. It turns out Trey has been living at the infamous Belle Estate, owned by a wealthy and eccentric widow—who locals believe is a witch. The only thing odder than how a twenty-three-year-old college kid from Utah ended up living in a remote and isolated mansion on the North Shore of Kauai is that he is romantically involved with a woman old enough to be their grandmother. Belle Estate’s walls hold an eerie sway over all who enter, and a dark, shadowy presence seems to be following them around the grounds. When an unfavorable change of plans forces them to stay overnight, Sam and Colby are in for the most terrifying encounter of their lives.
Island Paradise
Island Paradise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Island Paradise write by Barbara McMahon. This book was released on 2014-11-05. Island Paradise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stranded on an exotic island in the south Pacific, Mary-Kate is enchanted with the island, the people she meets and their slower way of life. Too bad she isn’t as enchanted with the island’s stern owner. Her attempts to leave are constantly delayed. Then just when she’s about to change her mind about wanting to leave, the way is clear. Now what’s a woman to do–leave the man she’s fallen for behind, or stay where she’s not wanted?
