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Capital's Drive and the De-territorialization of "Islands in the Stream"

Session 8 - Sunday 2:45-4:15pm
Ching Hall 250
Presiding Officer: 
Michel Valentin
  1. French Enlightenment and Deterritorialization of Tahiti: Bougainville and Diderot. Mladen Kozul, University of Montana

    This paper aims at identifying the strategies of territorialisation/deterritorialization of French Enlightenment and Tahiti's cultural and social codes in Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's Voyage autour du Monde (1771) and Denis Diderot's Supplément au voyage de Bougainville (1772).

  2. Lines of Mapping, Lines of Flight: The Islands of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. Julia Panko, University of California, Santa Barbara

    This paper examines the literal and metaphorical role of islands in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, arguing that islands, although they are exploited spaces, also radically resist mapping and control. Islands offer lines of flight, becoming both sites and metaphors for communities of resistance.

  3. The De-territorialization of "Islands in the Stream" by the Drive of Capital. Michel Valentin, University of Montana, Missoula

    From Montaigne to Lévi-Strauss via Bougainville, Cook, Melville, Stevenson, Loti, Gauguin, Flaherty, Murnau… , Europe maps its desire onto islanders before capital’s drive de-territorialized them.

Session Type: 
Special Session
Session Status: 
Closed