Affective islandness: personal narratives and material identities

Kathryn A. Burnett; Lynda Harling  Stalker

Affective islandness: personal narratives and material identities

Kathryn A. Burnett
, Lynda Harling Stalker

School of Business and Creative Industries

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Abstract

Affective islandness: personal narratives and material identities

Islands often appear to have that "one person" and their narrative that comes to especially represent the essential quality of the island place. This paper explores how such celebrated persons, and their celebrity status both on a local and international stage offer sites of affective islandness. Using cases-studies drawn from Canada and Scotland we consider how island communities work to harness and narrativise the affective power of their island celebrities to create cultural places and spaces that inform a broader collective island identity. With reference to the material sites and affective spaces of (a) L. M. Montgomery on Prince Edward Island and (b) Dr John Rae in Orkney, our short paper considers these two quite different historical personae as contrasting and complimentary examples of how islands create, foster and forge collective cultural narratives via the affective materiality of "their own".

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 17 Jun 2021
Event	International Small Islands Studies Association 2021 Conference: Sharing Lessons, Sharing Stories - Online, Canada Duration: 14 Jun 2021 → 18 Jun 2021 https://www.mun.ca/wearehere/isisa.php (Conference website.)

Conference

Conference	International Small Islands Studies Association 2021 Conference
Abbreviated title	ISISA 2021
Country/Territory	Canada
Period	14/06/21 → 18/06/21
Internet address	https://www.mun.ca/wearehere/isisa.php (Conference website.)

Keywords

islands
Scotland
narrative
material culture
affective sociology
landscape
representation
cultural hertitage
literature

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Affective islandness: personal narratives and material identities

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