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In this important and beautifully-written book, Helen Kapstein brings together Robinson Crusoe and Robben Island Museum, metaphorical and material spaces, the aesthetics of reading and the economics of tourism. Conceptually challenging and eminently readable, Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism transforms our view of all its component terms. -- Dohra Ahmad, Associate Professor and Assistant Chair of English, St John's University, USA Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism is an insistently insightful book that crosses disciplines and geographies with impressive ease. Helen Kapstein brings postcolonial studies, the environmental humanities, and tourist studies into dynamic conversation. She is a wonderful reader of material and imaginative islands and an eloquent witness to the costs and consequences of insular thinking. -- Rob Nixon, Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in the Humanities and the Environment, Princeton University Islands have boundaries that are clear yet contestable: they enable and counter discourses of national identity, history, and memory. In Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism, Helen Kapstein offers a deft and engaging assessment of their role as metaphor, metonym, and material space in a range of postcolonial (and postimperial) literary texts and cultural objects. This is an original and important study. -- Andrew van der Vlies, Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Queen Mary University of London This is a splendid contribution to postcolonial studies in so many ways. It not only provides cogent analyses of important texts in the field, but also comes to terms with the complex formations and interrelations of islands and states. It provides a vital comparative and geographic sense of postcolonial writing. Highly recommended. -- Peter Hitchcock, Professor of English, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

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Helen Kapstein is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College, CUNY.

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