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OverviewObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 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 traveling 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 desires for freedom and escape, but also our greatest fears of forced isolation. This book asks: what can islands teach us about living sustainably, being alone or coexisting with others, coping with uncertainty, and making do? Island explores these and other questions and ideas, but is constructed above all from the stories and experiences gathered during a lifetime of island hopping. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr. Julian HannaPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 9798765102367Pages: 184 Publication Date: 05 September 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Island Fever 2. Mourning (Vancouver Island, Summer 2021) 3. Escape (Porto Santo, Summer 2020) 4. Quarantine (Madeira, Spring 2020) 5. Holiday (Belle Île, Summer 2019) 6. Longing (São Vicente, Spring 2019) 7. Experiment (Eday, Fall 2017) 8. Darkness (Spitsbergen, Winter 2017) 9. Cities (Hong Kong, Spring 2016) 10. Nostalgia (Madeira, 2014-2017) 11. Secrets (Ireland, 1998-2000) 12. Pleasures (Ibiza, 1997) 13. Crossings (Vancouver Island-Hawaii, 1996-1997) 14. Rivers (Île de Montréal, 1992-1996) 15. Imaginaries (Cougar Island, 1977-1980) Coda: A packet of letters on Crete Desert Island Discs: Eight songs about islands Notes Acknowledgements IndexReviewsa poignant account of islands and island-ness * Noreen Masud, author of A Flat Place (2023) * Julian Hanna explores islands in concept and experience through erudite, witty and often moving reflections on a life spent archipelago-hopping. He moves nimbly from seemingly unrelated themes - modernist literature, the attractions of British post-punk to Vancouver Island teenagers in the 1980s, sustainable energy, and the problems of exile and return - in narrative that ultimately reveals the distinctive ways that islands bring people together. * Alixe Bovey, Executive Dean and Deputy Director, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK * Smart, witty, and poignant, Island playfully sends us Julian Hanna’s chapters as messages in a bottle from a series of islands, including Vancouver Island, Eday, Hong Kong, Madeira, São Vicente, and Spitsbergen. Inventively mixing criticism, travel writing, and memoir, this sparkling lyrical book reveals islands to be fascinating and fragile spaces that connect and separate, serving as place and metaphor, exile and sanctuary, journey and destination. Island gives us object lessons not just about islands, but also about love and grief and what makes us human. Reading it in Vancouver Island, in one exhilarating sitting, I couldn’t put it down. * Alison Chapman FRSC, Professor of English, University of Victoria, Canada * Author InformationJulian Hanna teaches Culture Studies at Tilburg University, Netherlands, where his research focuses on critical intersections between culture, politics, and technology. His books include Island (Bloomsbury, 2024) in the Object Lessons series, The Manifesto Handbook: 95 Theses on an Incendiary Form (2020), and Key Concepts in Modernist Literature (2008). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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