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The essay examines some of the fascinating ways in which islands have inspired writers, and especially poets, into acts of symbolization in which an island provides the pretext for a variety of compulsive themes that range from the love or fear of solitude, isolation, and the need to escape to or from an island. The recurrent figures of this allegorical mode include Crusoe, Caliban, Odysseus, and The Man Who Loved Islands.
January 2004: Professor of English and author of The Long Poems of Wallace Stevens: An Interpretative Study (CUP, 1985); eo-editor of Complicities: Connections and Divisions-Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region (Peter Lang, 2003) and Institutions in Cultures: Theory and Practice (Rodopi, 1996); Guest Editor of The European Legacy 7.6 (December 2002). “Benjamin and Bakhtin: The Possibility of Conversation.” Journal of Narrative Theory 33.1 (Winter 2003): 12-32. Author of numerous articles, including “Adorno and the Postcolonial,” New Formations 47(Summer 2002): 133-43; “Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project and the Postcolonial City,” Diacritics 40.4 (Winter 2000): 3-14.
