Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and

This volume studies the spatial poetics of islands as depicted in literature, the journals of explorers and scientists, and in film. It shows how voyages of dis

A collection of twenty-nine essays written over the past forty years.

Is there an allure of spoiled places? Spoil islands are overlooked places that combine dirt with paradise, waste-land with “brave new world,” and wildness w

This book explores the work of artists based in the global south whose practices and methods interrogate and explore the residue of Empire. In doing so, it high