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This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book aims to negotiate between the allusive multiplicity and the historical fixity of islands, by holding in tension the idea of the island as the subject of both history and representation. It investigates the relationship between Pacific island exploration and the development of racial theory in eighteenth-century Germany. The book discusses the relationship between island geographies and the particular scopophilic pleasures of first contact as they are narrated in European voyage accounts. It focuses on the use of islands as leper colonies in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century and provides examples from Hawaii, Cape Town, and northern Australia of the island as alien and other. The book considers the apparent contradiction of using the European form of the epic to write about a Caribbean island in a postcolonial era.
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