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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: Julian Hanna, "Island" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Description: Darwin called the Galápagos archipelago “a little world within itself,” unaffected by humans and set on its own evolutionary path – strange, diverse, and unique. Islands are repositories of unique cultures and ways of living, seed banks built up in relative isolation. Island is an archipelago of ideas, drawing from research and first-hand experience living, working, and travelling to islands as far afield as Madeira and Cape Verde, Orkney and Svalbard, the Aran Islands and the Gulf Islands, Hong Kong and Manhattan.Islands have long been viewed as both paradise and prison – we project onto them our deepest d...