Murray (a managing editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing explores how postcolonial writers from Sri Lanka and the Caribbean have contested stereotypical representations of island
nations as paradisal and pastoral and how, as mostly diasporic authors, they have negotiated issues of hybrid identity. She explores how Jamaica Kincaid links colonial conquest of islands to
the trope of the garden; the use of Sri Lankan storytelling traditions to interrogate the notion of paradise in the writings of Romesh Gunesekara; colonial ideology and the replication of the
paradisal English landscape in Sri Lanka in the work of Jean Arasanayagam; and the use of Caribbean modes of oral storytelling, creole culture, and carnival to interrogate paradisal stereotypes
of the West Indies in the writings of Lawrence Scott. Prices are converted from Euros and subject to fluctuation. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
