Island Paradise

Author : Melanie A. Murray
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042026964

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Island Paradise by Melanie A. Murray Pdf

A colonial discourse has perpetuated the literary notion of islands as paradisal. This study explores how the notions of island paradise have been represented in European literature, the oral and literary indigenous traditions of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka, a colonial literary influence in these islands, and the literary experience after independence in these nations. Persistent themes of colonial narratives foreground the aesthetic and ignore the workforce in a representation of island space as idealized, insular, and vulnerable to conquest; an ideal space for management and control. English landscape has been replicated in islands through literature and in reality - the 'Great House' being an ideological symbol of power. Island Paradise: The Myth investigates how these entrenched notions of paradise, which islands have traditionally represented metonymically, are contested in the works of four postcolonial authors: Jamaica Kincaid, Lawrence Scott, Romesh Gunesekera, and Jean Arasanayagam, from the island nations of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka. It analyzes texts which focus on gardens, island space, and houses to examine how these motifs are used to re-vision colonial/contested sites. This book examines the relationship between landscape and identity and, with reference to Homi K. Bhabha, considers how these writers offer an alternative space for negotiating the ambivalence of hybridity.

Author : Sam Golbach,Colby Brock,Gaby Triana
Publisher : Permuted Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781682619506

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Paradise Island by Sam Golbach,Colby Brock,Gaby Triana Pdf

Four best friends—Check. One unforgettable week in Kauai—Check. Sun, surf, and hula girls in bikinis—Check. A creepy mansion on the forbidden side of the island…. Check? Sam and Colby’s vacation in paradise goes from enchanting, to weird, to deadly, when Trey, an old acquaintance, insists they can’t leave without a visit to the legendary Nā Pali Coast. It turns out Trey has been living at the infamous Belle Estate, owned by a wealthy and eccentric widow—who locals believe is a witch. The only thing odder than how a twenty-three-year-old college kid from Utah ended up living in a remote and isolated mansion on the North Shore of Kauai is that he is romantically involved with a woman old enough to be their grandmother. Belle Estate’s walls hold an eerie sway over all who enter, and a dark, shadowy presence seems to be following them around the grounds. When an unfavorable change of plans forces them to stay overnight, Sam and Colby are in for the most terrifying encounter of their lives.

Author : Nicholas Senn
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:4066339523302

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Tahiti, the island paradise by Nicholas Senn Pdf

"Tahiti, the island paradise" by Nicholas Senn. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Georgie Rogers
Publisher : Richards Education
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Island Escapes: Tropical Paradise Getaways by Georgie Rogers Pdf

Escape to paradise with Island Escapes: Tropical Paradise Getaways. This comprehensive guidebook takes you on a journey to some of the world’s most breathtaking islands, offering detailed itineraries, insider tips, and essential travel information. Whether you’re seeking adventure in the Caribbean, tranquility in the South Pacific, or cultural immersion in Southeast Asia, this book has you covered. Discover the hidden gems, luxurious resorts, and natural wonders of each island destination. From planning your trip and packing essentials to sustainable travel practices, this guide ensures your island getaway is unforgettable. Pack your bags and get ready to explore the world’s most idyllic islands!

Author : Melanie A. Murray
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042026971

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Island Paradise: The Myth by Melanie A. Murray Pdf

A colonial discourse has perpetuated the literary notion of islands as paradisal. This study explores how the notions of island paradise have been represented in European literature, the oral and literary indigenous traditions of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka, a colonial literary influence in these islands, and the literary experience after independence in these nations. Persistent themes of colonial narratives foreground the aesthetic and ignore the workforce in a representation of island space as idealized, insular, and vulnerable to conquest; an ideal space for management and control. English landscape has been replicated in islands through literature and in reality – the ‘Great House’ being an ideological symbol of power. Island Paradise: The Myth investigates how these entrenched notions of paradise, which islands have traditionally represented metonymically, are contested in the works of four postcolonial authors: Jamaica Kincaid, Lawrence Scott, Romesh Gunesekera, and Jean Arasanayagam, from the island nations of the Caribbean and Sri Lanka. It analyzes texts which focus on gardens, island space, and houses to examine how these motifs are used to re-vision colonial/contested sites. This book examines the relationship between landscape and identity and, with reference to Homi K. Bhabha, considers how these writers offer an alternative space for negotiating the ambivalence of hybridity.

Author : Kathy Page
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015025258610

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Island Paradise by Kathy Page Pdf

Author : Peter Rudiak-Gould
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1402766645

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Surviving Paradise by Peter Rudiak-Gould Pdf

Just one month after his 21st birthday, Peter Rudiak-Gould moved to Ujae, a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands located 70 miles from the nearest telephone, car, store, or tourist, and 2,000 miles from the closest continent. He spent the next year there, living among its 450 inhabitants and teaching English to its schoolchildren. At first blush, Surviving Paradise is a thoughtful and laugh-out-loud hilarious documentation of Rudiak-Gould’s efforts to cope with daily life on Ujae as his idealistic expectations of a tropical paradise confront harsh reality. But Rudiak-Gould goes beyond the personal, interweaving his own story with fascinating political, linguistic, and ecological digressions about the Marshall Islands. Most poignant are his observations of the noticeable effect of global warming on these tiny, low-lying islands and the threat rising water levels pose to their already precarious existence. An Eat, Pray, Love as written by Paul Theroux, Surviving Paradise is a disarmingly lighthearted narrative with a substantive emotional undercurrent.

Author : Donna Anders
Publisher : Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Historicals 90s
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1991-12-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373287135

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Paradise Moon by Donna Anders Pdf

Paradise Moon by Donna Anders released on Dec 25, 1991 is available now for purchase.

Author : Barbara McMahon
Publisher : Tropical Escape
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1960795066

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Island Paradise by Barbara McMahon Pdf

Stranded Mary-Kate can't believe it when the cruise she's working takes off without her, leaving her behind on a remote south Pacific island. Despite all attempts to be reunited with her ship, this island is off the beaten path and accessibility is limited. As the days pass, she becomes involved with the islanders and discovers a unique lifestyle so different from her own that's highly appealing.Suspicious Dane Carmichel is a leading land owner on the island and suspicious of Mary-Kate's story. When she asks for help getting off the island, he informs her of the next boat-in eighteen days. Reluctantly offering her a place to stay, he remains suspicious of her motives-even more so when she begins to fit in with the island way of life.Sail Away When Mary-Kate's about to change her mind about wanting to leave, the rescue ship arrives. Now what's a woman to do-leave the man she's fallen in love with behind, or stay where she's not wanted?

Author : Ian Kinane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783488087

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Theorising Literary Islands by Ian Kinane Pdf

Theorising Literary Islands is an epistemological study of the development of the Robinsonade genre, its ideological functions within contemporary Anglophone cultural thought, and the role of literary and filmic mediation in constructing twentieth and twenty-first century European and American relations with and to the Pacific region.

Author : Donna Anders
Publisher : Harlequin Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373286813

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Ketti by Donna Anders Pdf

Ketti by Donna Anders released on Apr 24, 1991 is available now for purchase.

Author : Charlotte Gray
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781443449366

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Murdered Midas by Charlotte Gray Pdf

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year In this “engrossing must-read” by “Canada’s most accomplished popular historian” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine), the glittering life and brutal murder of Sir Harry Oakes is newly investigated. Murdered Midas is “superior true-crime writing” (The Globe and Mail). On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold-mining tycoon, philanthropist and one of the richest men in the British Empire, is murdered. The news of his death surges across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial centre, to the remote Canadian mining town of Kirkland Lake in the Northern Ontario bush. The murder becomes celebrated as the crime of the century. The layers of mystery deepen as the involvement of Count Alfred de Marigny, Oakes’s son-in-law, comes into question. Also suspicious are the odd machinations of the governor of the Bahamas, the former King Edward VIII. But despite a sensational trial, no murderer is convicted. Rumours about Oakes’s missing fortune are unrelenting, and fascination with the story has persisted for decades. Award-winning biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray explores the life of the man behind the scandal—from his early, hardscrabble days during the massive mineral rush in Northern Ontario, to the fabulous fortune he reaped from his own gold mine, to his grandiose gestures of philanthropy. And Gray brings fresh eyes to the bungled investigation and shocking trial on the remote colonial island, proposing an overlooked suspect in this long cold case. Murdered Midas is the story of the man behind the newspaper headlines, a man both admired and reviled who, despite great wealth and public standing, never experienced justice.

Author : Kristiana Kahakauwila
Publisher : Hogarth
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780770436254

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This Is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila Pdf

Elegant, brutal, and profound—this magnificent debut captures the grit and glory of modern Hawai'i with breathtaking force and accuracy. In a stunning collection that announces the arrival of an incredible talent, Kristiana Kahakauwila travels the islands of Hawai'i, making the fabled place her own. Exploring the deep tensions between local and tourist, tradition and expectation, façade and authentic self, This Is Paradise provides an unforgettable portrait of life as it’s truly being lived on Maui, Oahu, Kaua'i and the Big Island. In the gut-punch of “Wanle,” a beautiful and tough young woman wants nothing more than to follow in her father’s footsteps as a legendary cockfighter. With striking versatility, the title story employs a chorus of voices—the women of Waikiki—to tell the tale of a young tourist drawn to the darker side of the city’s nightlife. “The Old Paniolo Way” limns the difficult nature of legacy and inheritance when a patriarch tries to settle the affairs of his farm before his death. Exquisitely written and bursting with sharply observed detail, Kahakauwila’s stories remind us of the powerful desire to belong, to put down roots, and to have a place to call home.

Author : Omar El Akkad
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529069501

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What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad Pdf

‘Deserves to be an instant classic. I haven’t loved a book this much in a long time . . . What Strange Paradise . . . reads as a parable for our times . . . Such beautiful writing . . . This is an extraordinary book.’ – New York Times From the widely acclaimed author of American War, Omar El Akkad, a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic and profoundly moving novel that brings the global refugee crisis down to the level of a child’s eyes. More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too-many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. And only one had made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials, but of Vänna: a teenage girl, native to the island, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though Vänna and Amir are complete strangers and don’t speak a common language, Vänna determines to do whatever it takes to save him. In alternating chapters, we learn the story of Amir’s life and of how he came to be on the ship; and we follow the duo as they make their way towards a vision of safety. But as the novel unfurls, we begin to understand that this is not merely the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise is the story of our collective moment in this time: of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair – and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality, or guide us to a better one.

Author : Celerie Kemble
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780847862191

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Island Whimsy by Celerie Kemble Pdf

A house by the sea should be a house of dreams. Where windows and doors are thrown open to the ocean, and gusts of cool, salty air turn us all into kids again--buoyant and joyful. Spending childhood days on the beach and in the magical, romantic chaos of her family's rambling house internationally renowned interior designer Celerie Kemble has a deep-rooted connection to the sun and surf. However, in the summer of 2004, Kemble laid eyes on a wild swath of jungle in the Dominican Republic next to minty-blue water and an endless stretch of golden sand, she fell madly in love. Over many years, she designed a home away from home there, an island retreat--a clubhouse and a grouping of family homes and guesthouses--suffused with light and air, full of indoor and outdoor rooms for relaxation. In her latest book, Island Whimsy, Kemble recounts the deeply personal and creative journey of designing Playa Grande and bringing this labor of love to life. The chapters of this book are organized around the different ways Kemble sought to braid her family's story into the larger landscape of Playa Grande and to provide inspiration, joy, and respite to all who come. "Fantasy" looks at the way she used whimsical, dreamlike elements--from the latticework cabanas by the pool to the lamb statues on the property who "mow" the lawns--throughout the property to create a sense of play and possibility. "Light, Salt, Air" describes how she went about bringing the most precious elements of the beach into the homes themselves, creating a feeling of flow and permeability, and reminding visitors constantly of where they are. "In the Jungle" looks at the design cues she took from the flora and fauna of the tropical rainforest surrounding Playa Grande to create an alluring tension between chaos and refinement. "Sweet & Dark" examines the surprising color combinations that tango into life in the tropics--whether in the form of tribal prints in hot Gauguin colors mixed with Jordan-almond pastels or handmade objects like a papier-mâché lobster mask that brings a shout of spirit to a room. Finally, "Texture" focuses on the powerful impact that thoughtfully layered materials--from rough, local coquina stone and painted antique wicker to the smooth polished cotton of Dutch wax prints--have on a space. Throughout this lovingly crafted book, ideas abound for anyone decorating a sunny home or fantasizing about spending time in one. Kemble shares inspiration for creating a sense of openness to the sea, sand, and sky; offering places to wash sandy feet or perfect viewing spots for a sunset-saturated drink; and infusing spaces with invitation, welcome, and magic.