Title: Chris Bongie: Islands and Exiles
Product review: Islands and Exiles is a truly breathtaking study of creolization by an outstanding scholar. Impressive in its range and lucidly written, Bongie's work examines both colonial and postcolonial literatures and engages with authors as diverse as Victor Hugo, J.M. Coetzee and Keri Hulme. Building on his superb earlier work, Exotic Memories, the author interrogates the complexities of colonial and postcolonial identity with sensitivity and wit. Particularly useful to this reader were the introductory chapters which seek to complicate the somewhat manichean debates surrounding postcolonial theory.
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