Understanding Island Spatiality Through Co-visibility: The construction of islands as legible territories – a case study of the Azores

Abstract

This article explores how the island territory of the Azores (Portugal) emerges and is spatially defined in two cultural texts: Raul Brandão's As Ilhas Desconhecidas (whose title translates as 'Unknown Islands') and Vitorino Nemésio's Mau Tempo no Canal (published in English language translation as Stormy Isles: An Azorean Tale) and uses them to identify interpretative elements of the island experience.By categorising key island spatialities and sensory inputs, I propose the relationship between the observer and island space and assert that these spatialities converge to form a territory composed of water and land, synthesised via the concept of terraquée, and confirm the existence of an aggregate Azorean island spatiality, which is rooted in co-visibility.

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