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J. Zimmermann / E. Winkler: Introduction - Islands in Canada and the Northern US - T. Kugland: Bringing the War Back Home Manhattan as Heterotopia in Christopher Nolan´s The Dark Knight Rises and Brian Wood´s DMZ - M. Kürschner: Colonizing Mental Islands: Insularity and Insanity in Shutter Island - M. Moss: Beechey Island: The Arctic "Heart of Darkness" - Islands in the American South - J. Zimmermann: Sullivan´s Island in Antebellum Southern Literature: William Gilmore Simms´s "The Passage of Arms at ´76" and Edgar Allan Poe´s "The Gold-Bug" - B. Röckl: Beyond the Borders of the Modern World: The Function of the Island in Richard Wright´s 12 Million Black Voices and Gloria Naylor´s Mama Day - Islands in the Caribbean - T. Riis: Lucie H›rlyk, a Danish Caribbean Writer in Historical Context - F. Desler: Exploring Other Spaces: Lucie H›rlyk´s West Indian Narratives and the Danish-Caribbean Island Experience - E. Keynes: Puerto Rico: "The World´s Oldest Colony"? - Fictional Islands - E. Winkler: "This is no ordinary place": The Island in the Television Show Lost - M. Conrad: Post-Apocalyptic Islands: Survival in 21st-Century Film and Literature - D. Schäbler: The Island as Frontier: Digital Insular Visions, Genre Innovations, and Border Crossings

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