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Desert islands and the liquid modern

Samson, Barney.

Desert islands and the liquid modern

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Desert islands and the liquid modernby Barney Samson.
Author:	Samson, Barney.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020.
Description:	x, 139 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Castaways.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57046-0
ISBN:	9783030570460$q(electronic bk.)

Desert islands and the liquid modern
Samson, Barney.

Desert islands and the liquid modern[electronic resource] /by Barney Samson. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020. - x, 139 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Introduction: What is a desert island? -- 1. Wartime and rationing: desert island escapes and escapades -- 2. After the war: rebuilding society on the desert island -- 3. A decade of decadence: consuming (on) the desert island -- 4. Failing fantasies: The desert island at the turn of the twentieth century -- 5. Swept away: twenty-first century fluid identities and dissolving desert islands -- Afterword.

This book investigates desert islands in postwar anglophone popular culture, exploring representations in radio, print and screen advertising, magazine cartoons, television comedy and drama, cinema, and video games. Drawing on Zygmunt Bauman's theory of liquid modernity, desert island texts are analysed in terms of their intersections with repressive and seductive mechanisms of power. Chapters focus on the desert island as: a conflictingly in/coherent space that characterises identity as deferred and structured by choice; a location whose 'remoteness' undermines satirical critiques of communal identity formation; a site whose ambivalent relationship with 'home' and Otherness destabilises patriarchal 'Western' subjectivity; a space bound up with mobility and instantaneity; and an expression of radical individuality and underdetermined identity. The desert island in popular culture is shown to reflect, endorse and critique a profoundly consumerist society that seduces us with promises of coherence, with the threat of repression looming if we do not conform.

ISBN: 9783030570460$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-57046-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

881537
Castaways.

LC Class. No.: G525 / .S267 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 306.4

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