‘The delirium of the dérive’: reflections on the poetics and politics of the archipelago

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1 Albert Wendt, Leaves of the Banyan Tree, Honolulu: University of Hawa’I Press, 1979, p 74. For a more detailed reading of Leaves of the Banyan Tree from a related perspective, see Ashalyna Noa and Johannes Riquet, '(Re)storying a Sea of Islands on Dry Land: Fāgogo and the Poetics of Oceanic Space in Albert Wendt's Leaves of the Banyan Tree', Pacific Insularity: Imaginary Geography of Insular Spaces in the Pacific. Michael Heitkemper Yates and Thomas Schwarz (eds). Tokyo: Rikkyo University Press, pp 245–265.

2 Elaine Stratford et al., ‘Envisioning the Archipelago’, Island Studies Journal 6(2), 2011, pp 113–130.

3 Jonathan Pugh, ‘Island Movements: Thinking with the Archipelago’, Island Studies Journal 8(1), 2013, pp 9–24.

4 Hau‘ofa, Epeli, ‘Our Sea of Islands’, The Contemporary Pacific 6(1), pp 147–161.

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6 John Brannigan, Archipelagic Modernism: Literature in the Irish and British Isles, 1890–1897, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.

7 Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens (eds), Archipelagic American Studies, Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.

8 Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007.

9 Keavy Martin, Stories in a New Skin: Approaches to Inuit Literature, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2012.

10 Adriana Craciun, Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

11 Johannes Riquet, The Aesthetics of Island Space, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

12 Alfred Russel Wallace, Island Life, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013 [1980].

13 Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Ornithological Notes, Nora Barlow (ed), London: British Museum, 1963 [1832–1836].

14 Gillian Beer, ‘The Island and the Aeroplane: The Case of Virginia Woolf’, Nation and Narration, Homi K Bhabha (ed), London: Routledge, 1990, p 271.

15 Jacques Derrida, The Beast and the Sovereign, vol 2, Michel Lisse et al. (ed),Geoffrey Bennington (trans), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, p 9.

16 Paul Carter, The Road to Botany Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987, p xii.

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Johannes Riquet

Johannes Riquet is Professor of English Literature at Tampere University (Finland). He is the author of The Aesthetics of Island Space: Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics (Oxford University Press, 2019).