出版社：Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island
摘要：From the second half of the 17th century onwards, Sardinia has fascinated manyGerman-speaking travelers and writers, whose works have given rise to a particular literarytradition, based on a prismatic image of this island. Through a large and often unexplored corpus,consisting of travelogues, diaries, novels, short stories, and poetry, a specific literary discourse ofthe island has been constructed over the centuries, and Sardinia has acquired the distorted imageof either a waste land, an exile, and prison, or an uncorrupted paradise, where human beings canstill retrieve a deep relationship with the Earth. This paper aims to give an account of this discourseto highlight, from a diachronic perspective, the construction of the image of an island more orless influenced by a Eurocentric perspective. Using a geopoetic approach, several texts are analysedin a hermeneutic process which outlines not only the island’s colonial past, but also theconstruction of a recent neocolonial project made up of uncontrolled urbanization,industrialization, mass tourism, and (nuclear) pollution.
