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| Probably this comes way to late... | Jun 9, 2009 |
Jerry of the Islands and Island Tales by Jack London
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विषय आरंभकर्ता | Not too late... | Jun 9, 2009 |
It's not too late: the article never got written, but there was such interest in this topic that I've kept it going on an occasional basis ever since. Thanks again to everyone who has contributed so far, and I look forward to hearing from others in the future.
| | | | | 'South Pacific'; stories of pioneer families; mythical islands in the Bohai; Iceland/Australia | Jun 10, 2009 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_(musical) 1949
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_(film) 1958
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqxB-YqOej8&feature=related
Bali Ha'i - Juanita Hall 's own voice - South Pacific - Bali Hai - HD - Deleted Scene
Island Pioneers: Crusoes of Sunday Island (Kermadecs), Floreana (Galapagos):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermadec_Islands#History http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-MorCrus.html
Crusoes of Sunday Island, Elsie K. Morton, 1957
http://www.amazon.com/Floreana-Pilgrimage-Galapagos-Margret-Wittmer/dp/155921001X
Floreana, Margret Wittmer, translated from the German, 1961
[ Mythical islands:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Penglai
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Penglai#Location
Penglai/Hōrai ... According to the Shan Hai Jing, the mountain is said to be on an island in the eastern end of Bohai Sea, along with four other islands where the immortals lived, called Fāngzhàng (方丈), Yíngzhōu (瀛州), Dàiyú (岱輿), and Yuánjiāo (員嬌). ... ]
[1 South Pacific Travelogues and Fiction
http://www.frommers.com/destinations/southpacific/0240020873.html
Frommer's Travel Guide: South Pacific: Recommended Books & Films:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_Hai_Jing
2 Shan Hai Jing (traditional Chinese: 山海經; simplified Chinese: 山海经; pinyin: Shānhǎi Jīng; Wade-Giles: Shan Hai Ching; literally "Collection of the Mountains and Seas") ... ]
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/135837/Cold-Fever/trailers
Cold Fever 1995 - road movie set in Iceland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iGNhgMd6uM&feature=related
Advance Australia Fair- Australian National Anthem Slideshow
'our home is girt by sea'
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| | | | | Pacific myths/legends; Belafonte 'Island in the Sun'; Isle of Skye; Mark Twain; Kipling; Avalon | Jun 11, 2009 |
http://home.earthlink.net/~fpearce/scuba/gods.html
Tales of Polynesia – Long ago, it was Maui who created the islands of Polynesia by fishing them out of the ocean. ...
Melanesia – Islands of Myth – Like Maui, Qat created the islands by fishing them up from the ocean flo... See more http://home.earthlink.net/~fpearce/scuba/gods.html
Tales of Polynesia – Long ago, it was Maui who created the islands of Polynesia by fishing them out of the ocean. ...
Melanesia – Islands of Myth – Like Maui, Qat created the islands by fishing them up from the ocean floor. ...
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1b0av_harry-belafonte-island-in-the-sun-l_events Harry Belafonte - Island In The Sun live
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:CqvjYyxLDDYJ:www.rotoruanz.com/rotorua/history/maori_legends.php%20hinemoa%20tutanekai&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk
New Zealand, Rotorua: The Legend of Hinemoa and Tutanekai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wll1WqKGhAs&feature=related
Roger Whittaker & Des O'Connor - The Skye Boat Song (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDz6clakhXw&feature=related
Road to the Isles, Andy Stewart (from Fort William to Mallaig)
http://www.road-to-the-isles.org.uk/ (map + visuals)
Jackson's Island: The island where Huck and Jim first hide out after they run away. They stay in a cavern here, where Jim is bitten by a rattlesnake.
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/hf/OBJ.htm
Mark Twain, 'Huckleberry Finn'
Island ports: Singapore, Hong Kong, Victoria (Vancouver Island), Hobart, Auckland: http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1830.html 'The Song of the Cities' by Rudyard Kipling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon
Legendary Island of Avalon (England - Arthurian legend)
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A few more:
Castaway by Lucy Irvine. Autobiographical. The experiences of an ill-matched couple who had themselves cast away on an island north of Queensland for a year. Interesting because the author is so frank about her own defects as well as those of her irritating partner, and because of the couple's startling ill-preparedness for their adventure. Later effectively filmed, starring Oliver Reed and Amanda Donohoe.
Les Frères Corses (The Corsican Brothers) by Alexan... See more A few more:
Castaway by Lucy Irvine. Autobiographical. The experiences of an ill-matched couple who had themselves cast away on an island north of Queensland for a year. Interesting because the author is so frank about her own defects as well as those of her irritating partner, and because of the couple's startling ill-preparedness for their adventure. Later effectively filmed, starring Oliver Reed and Amanda Donohoe.
Les Frères Corses (The Corsican Brothers) by Alexandre Dumas père.
Pincher Martin by William Golding. Very weird. A man shipwrecked on an isolated rock. An obsessive read.
Jack has mentioned Gulliver's Travels (Swift). All the adventures take place on islands, including one that floats above the sea, not only the best known, Lilliput and Brobdignag.
Thunder Rock. A play - three men in a lighthouse - can't remember the author.
I'm sure there must be many more island books.
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The stage play " Tempest" by William Shakespeare takes place on an imaginary island where Prospero practices his magic. Most of it has a figurative meaning though ( both the magic and the island, as well as all the characters). Prospero is allegedly an auto-biographical character of Shakespeare himself.
| | | | | Hinemoa; Hao Ran; The Wicker Man; Woolf 'To the Lighthouse'; Albert Wendt; Elizabeth Gouge | Jun 14, 2009 |
Broken link: http://rotoruanz.com/rotorua/history/maori_legends.php
http://www.maoriweddings.co.nz/hinemoa.html
First time I knew the reference to 'Rotorua' in 'Pokarekare ana' was referring to this legend ...!:
The Chinese novelette by Hao Ran, "Xisha ernü" (1974) set in the Paracel Islands/Xisha archipelago between Vietnam and the Philippines.
'The Wicker Man is a wicker effigy used in human sacrifice by the ancient Gauls, according to Julius Caesar.' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man (1973 film), a British cult horror film. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man_(1973_film) The story follows a Scottish police officer, Sergeant Neil Howie, visiting the isolated island of Summerisle, in the search for a missing girl ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Lighthouse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Lighthouse#Part_I:_The_Window
To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. ... The novel is set in the Ramsays' summer home in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye. ...
Albert Wendt's books and poems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Wendt
Albert Wendt, CNZM (born 1939) is a Samoan poet and writer. ...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Dolphin-Country-Capuchin-Classics/dp/0955731224 First published in 1944, 'Green Dolphin Country' is a magnificent epic of love, courage and selfless devotion, set in the Channel Islands and New Zealand in the nineteenth century, ...
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GXua6gD4Hc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7velycGskS4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XltVP5aUnw4&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPvyZfH8OZM&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxwF6f_5HAE&NR=1
Hayley Westenra - Pokarekare Ana (English Subtitles)...
"Po Karekare Ana(연가) - Hayley Westenra
Pokarekare Ana - Kiri Te Kanawa
Pokarekare Ana - millenium NZ
Xena: Po Karekare Ana ]
[ Hao Ran Xisha ernü/The Sons and Daughters of Xisha/'Children of Xisha', Les enfants de Xisha (1976), The Children of the Western Sands:
http://www.china-historical-figures.com/bilder/biographie_13.html
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL4335960M/enfants-de-Xisha
Haoran ; traduit du chinois par Liang Paitchin ; avec une préf. par Michelle Loi.
http://books.google.com/books?id=KaecMgnFKEUC&pg=PA149&lpg=PA149&dq=hao%20ran%20western%20sands&source=bl&ots=WK5Z7PB-dv&sig=xvp75tTpZ3s9VnE36LSwU-FMnjY&hl=en&ei=1oc1Soe7FYeMsgOe67mCDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA150,M1 'Hao Ran’s Children of the Western Sands, a popular Communist work of the early 1970’s, ... (Mark Elvin, 1997) ]
[The South Sea Islands: The general name for China's many small islands in the South China Sea. These islands are scattered here and there on the wide ocean to the east and south of Hainan Island; they are usually divided into four island groups, the Dongsha Islands, the Xisha Islands, the Zhongsha Islands and the Nansha Islands and there is also Huangyan Island lying south-east of the Zhongsha Islands. ... (Translated from: Cartographical Publishing House, China Atlas, Cartographical Publishing House, Beijing, 1981) ]
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| | | | | Daughters of the Dust (1991); Legend of Liugong Island, Shandong; Qi Jiguang defends Fujian; Hatch | Jun 15, 2009 |
This movie is about a group of Gullah people in the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4PEcVK6gbM&feature=related
Daughters of the Dust Trailer (1991)
Liugong Island, in the harbour mouth at Weihai City, Shandong Province, North China: Why was Liugong Island given this name? There are two main stories about this: One i... See more This movie is about a group of Gullah people in the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4PEcVK6gbM&feature=related
Daughters of the Dust Trailer (1991)
Liugong Island, in the harbour mouth at Weihai City, Shandong Province, North China: Why was Liugong Island given this name? There are two main stories about this: One is that at the end of the Eastern Han, a branch of the Liu imperial kinsmen, unwilling to suffer the persecution of the Wei regime, moved to the island and took refuge there. And the other concerns the folk story of Liu Gong and Liu Mu. Tradition has it that a long time ago, there was a Southern merchant ship on its way north which suddenly met up with a fierce gale, and was out of sight of land for several days. With food and water all exhausted, the people had given up all hope, and could only resign themselves to their fate and drift with the current. One night, a seaman inadvertently suddenly discovered that there were flames in front of them, and started shouting excitedly: "We're saved, we're saved!" They knew that if there was fire, there must be people, and if there were people they would be saved. This ray of hope immediately aroused their strength, and they rowed the ship with all their might towards the flames. Eventually they could see clearly that in front of them there was an island, and there was an old man on the shore, holding up a torch to guide them. When the ship was close to the shore, the people on the ship jumped into the shallow water, rushed for the shore, and one after the other fell down on the sandy beach. The old man carried them on his back into his own thatched cottage, and by way of introduction said: "My name's Liu. Just call me Liu Gong". Liu Gong's wife was also a genial old person, she just took a handful of rice and put it into the pot, and presently it was ready. The more than ten people wolfed down bowl after bowl, but still the rice in the pot never seemed to run short. The sailors suddenly saw the light: this was an encounter with life-saving immortals, they fell on their knees and kowtowed. When they raised their heads, Liu Gong, husband and wife, had disappeared. The next day, when they made enquiries with the residents of the island, they also said that Liu Gong and Liu Mu often did these sorts of kind things. Later on, to thank Liu Gong, husband and wife, for their life-saving kindness, the people combined with the island residents to build a Liu Gong Liu Mu ancestral temple on the island, and furthermore named the island Liugong Island.
According to materials research from excavated artifacts, Liugong Island had people living on it as early as the Warring States period; the relics still exist today on the south-east side of the island. In the Han Dynasty, the Liu Family came onto the island, opened up the virgin soil and lived there, and Liugong Island was called "The Liu Family's Other Venture". In the early Ming, in order to avoid invasion and harassment by the Wokou pirates, the island's residents were moved off. ...
( Translated from: Shandong Tourism Authority, "www.sdta.gov.cn/weihai/jingqu" 1999)
How Qi Jiguang captured the Wokou island-lair at Hengyu, Fujian: In 1562, Qi Jiguang led the troops to aid Fujian. In those days, Hengyu, ten li from Ningde County Town, was a small island surrounded on all four sides by water, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Wokou were concentrated there. The newly arrived Wokou were occupying Niutian in Fuqing County, while their chieftain was occupying Lindun in Xinghua County, they were expressing support for each other in the South-East. After Qi Jiguang had gone to Fujian, he first attacked the Wokou at Hengyu. Taking advantage of the ebb tide, with each person grasping a sheaf of straw, they got in by filling in the moat, and with irresistible force, captured the Wokou lair. The Qi Troops exploited the victory as far as Fuqing, where they defeated the Wokou at Niutian. Quickly following on from this, that very night they hurried to Xinghua, breaching the Wokou camp at Lindun at one stroke, and killing several thousand of the enemy one after the other. (Translated from 'Qi Jiguang fights off the Wokou' in Wang Yong Kuan et al., Native land, China Youth Press, Beijing, 1983 )
[ The "Japanese Raids" were the first foreign aggression in China's history to come from the South-East. In the fourteenth century, just at the time China was setting up the Ming Dynasty, Japan entered a period of division. Civil wars were frequent, and a number of warriors, because they had been defeated in battle and lost their military appointments, and were unable to obtain land, became "Ronin " without an occupation. They collaborated with rogues and profiteers, and went into exile on the sea, continually invading and harassing China's south-east coastal region. In ancient times Japan was known as "Woguo", so historically these drifters and rogues were known as "Wokou", or "Japanese pirates". (Translated from 'Qi Jiguang fights off the Wokou' in Wang Yong Kuan et al., Native land, China Youth Press, Beijing, 1983 )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_Jiguang#Battles_against_Japanese_pirates
In July 1562, Qi Jiguang led six thousand elite troops south into Fujian. Within two months, his army eradicated three major lairs of Japanese pirates at Hengyu (橫嶼), Niutian (牛田) and Lindun (林墩). ]
Hatch (or The Plight of the Penguins). One man. Three millions penguins. ... his biggest venture was the Macquarie Island steaming works which placed him at ...
www.waitakere.govt.nz/artcul/ae/goingwest/hatch.asp - Cached - Similar
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One of the greatest English language books of the twentieth century, along with Wide Sargasso Sea, already mentioned, has to be John Hawkes' Second Skin, a terrible tale told by a narrator who has retreated to a tropical island to artificially inseminate cows and write a book largely about a second freezing, windswept island...
The wonderful French poet, doctor and ethnographer Victor Segalen wrote a novel about the demise of Polynesian culture in Tahiti, Les Immémoriaux, transla... See more One of the greatest English language books of the twentieth century, along with Wide Sargasso Sea, already mentioned, has to be John Hawkes' Second Skin, a terrible tale told by a narrator who has retreated to a tropical island to artificially inseminate cows and write a book largely about a second freezing, windswept island...
The wonderful French poet, doctor and ethnographer Victor Segalen wrote a novel about the demise of Polynesian culture in Tahiti, Les Immémoriaux, translated in English as A Lapse of Memory.
Another absolutely amazing text is Aimé Césaire's play set in Haiti, La Tragédie du roi Christophe, translated as The tragedy of King Christophe.
And surely at least one of Duras's novels was set on an island (or does it just seems that way?) ▲ Collapse
| | | | | too late for another suggestion? | Aug 3, 2009 |
"Diary", by Chuck Palahniuk:
From Publishers Weekly
With a first page that captures the reader hook, line and sinker, Palahniuk (Choke; Lullaby) plunges into the odd predicament of Waytansea Island resident and ex-art student Misty Marie Kleinman, whose husband, Peter, lies comatose in a hospital bed after a suicide attempt. Rooms in summer houses on the mainland that Peter has remodeled start to mysteriously disappear-"The man calling from Long Beach, he says his bathroom is ... See more "Diary", by Chuck Palahniuk:
From Publishers Weekly
With a first page that captures the reader hook, line and sinker, Palahniuk (Choke; Lullaby) plunges into the odd predicament of Waytansea Island resident and ex-art student Misty Marie Kleinman, whose husband, Peter, lies comatose in a hospital bed after a suicide attempt. Rooms in summer houses on the mainland that Peter has remodeled start to mysteriously disappear-"The man calling from Long Beach, he says his bathroom is missing"-and Misty, with the help of graphologist Angel Delaporte, discovers that crude and prophetic messages are scrawled across the walls and furniture of the blocked-off chambers. In her new world, where every day is "another longest day of the year," Misty suffers from mysterious physical ailments, which only go away while she is drawing or painting. Her doctor, 12-year-old daughter and mother-in-law, instead of worrying about her health, press her to paint more and more, hinting that her art will save exclusive Waytansea Island from being overrun by tourists. In the meantime, Misty is finding secret messages written under tables and in library books from past island artists issuing bold but vague warnings. With new and changing versions of reality at every turn, the theme of the "tortured artist" is taken to a new level and "everything is important. Every detail. We just don't know why, yet." The novel is something of a departure for Palahniuk, who eschews his blighted urban settings for a sinister resort island, but his catchy, jarring prose, cryptic pronouncements and baroque flights of imagination are instantly recognizable, and his sharp, bizarre meditations on the artistic process make this twisted tale one of his most memorable works to date.
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| La Invencion de Morel | Aug 3, 2009 |
By Adolfo Bioy Casares
Sort of surreal.. sort of science fiction
| | | | | Theatrical islands | Mar 8, 2010 |
Some Theatrical Islands:
- Sophocles: "Philoctetes"
- Marivaux: "The Island of Slaves"
- Edward Bond: "Summer"
- Louis Nowra: "Inside the Island", "The Golden Age".
and as mentioned here already,
- Shakespeare: "The Tempest"
- Euripides: "Iphigenie in Tauris"
- Barrie: "The Admirable Crighton"
- Synge: "Riders to the Sea"
And a whole LOT of plays by Tasmanians, about Tasmania!
I work in the theatre in Tasmania (the ... See more Some Theatrical Islands:
- Sophocles: "Philoctetes"
- Marivaux: "The Island of Slaves"
- Edward Bond: "Summer"
- Louis Nowra: "Inside the Island", "The Golden Age".
and as mentioned here already,
- Shakespeare: "The Tempest"
- Euripides: "Iphigenie in Tauris"
- Barrie: "The Admirable Crighton"
- Synge: "Riders to the Sea"
And a whole LOT of plays by Tasmanians, about Tasmania!
I work in the theatre in Tasmania (the island state to the south of Australia). I have just this week commenced work on a Masters, taking "Theatrical Islands" as my area of investigation, and specifically Tasmania itself.
Plays by Tasmanians, or set in Tasmania, are of course about a whole host of issues. I am interested in those that are about the Island itself. Recurrent themes/stories include:
- Tasmania as a place that people come to to be "healed";
- Tasmania as an Island that, in some indefinable (spiritual) way "heals";
- Tasmania as a place which is itself in need of healing (because of its convict, indigenous and environmental history).
It is instructive to compare Tasmanian (Island) works to those of other "isolated" communities. For example, plays set in the tropical rainforests of Far North Queensland tend to be about "getting away from it all", "escaping the rat race" etc. So thematically they are all in roughly the same territory ... but the Tasmanian plays do tend to be very specific in their concern with HEALING. (Though I admit that this may be because Tasmania itself DOES have a very dark history, and hence the notion that the island itself needs to be healed.) (And something that is VERY interesting - and will become a major part of my investigation, I have no doubt - is that this theme of "healing" is THE dominant note in work written by "outsiders".)
At the risk of taking this discussion slightly off-topic ... not just listing "Island literature" but also its "meaning" ... I am wondering if I could ask those from other islands if their literature is similarly themed? Or do other themes ( or "uses" of Island) recur? ▲ Collapse
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| Ernest Hemingway - Nobel Prize 1954 | Mar 8, 2010 |
"The Old Man and the Sea"
"Islands in the Stream"
Other authors:
Archibald Joseph Cronin, "Grand Canary", novel, 1933.
Marc Legendre, "Waiting for an Island", graphic novel, 2009.
So many!
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Hi Jack,
What a prolific person you are! I cannot think of any in English, only a few in Finnish, which would be no good to you guys.
| | | | | Thomas More - Utopia | Oct 6, 2010 |
A title that should be in the top five of any list, if not number one. I must admit I am sort of partial to the book.
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