"Archipelagic Imaginaries and the Americas: Islands - Narratives - Mythologies"
RIAS Vol. 20, Fall-Winter (2/2027)

"Imaginarios Archipelágicos y las Américas: Islas – Narrativas – Mitologías"
RIAS Vol. 20, Otoño–Invierno (2/2027)

Throughout the history of the Americas and the wider Atlantic world, islands have occupied a unique place in cultural imagination. From Indigenous cosmologies and Caribbean creation narratives to the transatlantic mythologies of the Canary Islands, colonial fantasies of paradise, maritime frontiers, prison islands, and contemporary environmental anxieties, islands have served as privileged sites for the production of myth, memory, and cultural meaning. Whether understood as spaces of refuge or confinement, utopia or catastrophe, rootedness or mobility, islands continue to function as laboratories of imagination through which societies negotiate questions of identity, sovereignty, ecology, and belonging...

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