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Joshua Comaroff, “Terror and Territory: Guantánamo and the Space of Contradiction,” Public Culture 19, no. 2 (2007), 395. 13. See Jon Stratton, Writing Sites: A Genealogy of the Postmodern World (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1990), 61–68. 14. Michel Foucault, “Of Other Spaces,” trans. Jay Miskowiec, Diacritics 16, no. 1 (1986), 24. 15. Philip Steinberg, “Insularity, Sovereignty and Statehood: The Represen- tation of Islands on Portolan Charts and the Construction of the Territo- rial State,” Geografiska Annaler 87 B (2005), 256. 16. Comaroff, “Terror and Territory,” 395. 17. Ibid., 397–98. 18. A decision announced by the incoming U.S. President, Barack Obama, to close the camp at Guantánamo by 2010 is yet to be implemented at the time of writing. 170 Notes 19. Peter Hanks, Patrick Keyzer, and Jennifer Clarke, Race and the Law of Territories: Australian Constitutional Law: Materials and Commentary (Chatswood, NSW: LexisNexis, 2004). 20. Amy Kaplan, “Where is Guantánamo?” American Quarterly 57, no. 3 (2005), 837; see also Amy Kaplan, “Violent Belongings and the Ques- tion of Empire Today,” American Quarterly 56, no. 1 (2004): 1–18. 21. See, for example, Mamdouh Habib and Julia Collingwood, My Story: The Tale of a Terrorist Who Wasn’t (Melbourne: Scribe, 2008); Moazzam Begg, Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar (London: W. W. Norton, 2006). 22. Andy Worthington, “Guantánamo’s Ghosts and the Shame of Diego Garcia,” http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2007/10/22/; British Broadcast- ing Corporation [BBC]; “Fresh Battle Over Chagos Exiles,” http://news .bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/; Stephen Grey, Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program (New York: St Martins, 2006); Amnesty International Report, “USA: Below the Radar: Secret Flights to Torture and ‘Disappearance,’” 2006, http://www.amnesty .org/en/library/info/ 23. Antonis Balasopoulos, “Nesologies: Island Form and Postcolonial Geo- poetics,” Postcolonial Studies 11, no. 1 (2008), 23. 24. Kaplan, “Where is Guantánamo?” 842. 25. Jana Evans Braziel, “Haiti, Guantánamo, and the ‘One Indispensable Nation,’” Cultural Critique 64 (2006): 127–60. 26. Ibid., 148–49. 27. Suvendrini Perera, “What is a Camp . ?” Borderlands e-journal 1, no. 1 (2002), http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol1no1_2002/perera_camp .html 28. Michael Evans, “Island Consciousness and Australian Strategic Culture,” Institute of Public Affairs Review, 2006, 1, http://www.ipa.org.au/ publications/755/island-consciousness-and-australian-strategic-culture/ pg/3 29. Frank Broeze, Island Nation: A History of Australians and the Sea (St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1998), 2, 4. 30. Simon Ville, “Island Nation: A History of Australians and the Sea,” Jour- nal of Transport History, 20, no. 1 (1999), 86. 31. Isobel Crombie, Body Culture (Mulgrave, Vic: Peleus Press, 2004), 61. 32. Rachel Wells, “Athletes’ Uniforms ‘UnAustralian,’” Brisbane Times, August 10, 2008. 33. Kim Beazley, leader of the federal opposition, doorstop interview, June 21, 2001, http://www.alp.org.au/media/0601/kbmcact210601.html 34. Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism (London: Sage Publications, 1995), 6. 35. Ibid., 9. 36. On the coexistence of imperial consciousness with domestic anti-colonialism in the United States, see the introduction in Ashley Dawson and Malini Notes 171 Johar Schueller, eds., Exceptional State: Contemporary US Culture and the New Imperialism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), 2–4. 37. Irit Rogoff and Florian Schneider, “Productive Anticipation,” in Cul- tural Politics in a Global Age: Uncertainty, Solidarity and Innovation, ed. David Held and Henrietta L. Moore (Oxford: One World, 2008), 347. 38. Ibid., 349. 39. Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (London: Chatto & Windus, 1993), 6; Rogoff and Schneider, “Productive Anticipation,” 347. 40. Rogoff and Schneider, “Productive Anticipation,” 347. 41. Some instances are cited by Tom Nairn in “On the Modesty of Austra- lia,” Arena Magazine 62 (2002–2003), 5. 42. Sutherland Shire Council Web site, “Birthplace of Modern Australia,” http://www.sutherland.nsw.gov.au/ssc 43. Australian Human Rights Commission, 2008 Immigration Detention Report, http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/immigration/ Chapter 1 1. Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi, The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (New York: Macmillan, 1980), 27. 2. For an account of the changes in the political climate after the election of a conservative government in 1996, see Suvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese, “‘Racial Suicide’: The Relicensing of Racism in Australia,” Race & Class 39, no. 2 (1997): 1–20. 3. Brett Nielson, “Bodies of Protest: Performing Citizenship at the 2000 Olympic Games,” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 16, no. 1 (2002): 20. See also the discussion of Anu’s performance by Eliza- beth McMahon in “The Gilded Cage: From Utopia to Monad in Austra- lia’s Island Imaginary,” in Islands in History and Representation, ed. Rod Edmund and Vanessa Smith (London: Routledge, 2003), 190–202. 4. The Mabo ruling of 1992 was historic in recognizing for the first time that Australia was not terra nullius at the time of colonization. However, the judgment also found that in many places the Indigenous title had been sub- sequently “extinguished” by the colonizers’ use and ownership of the land. 5. The dress, now part of the Powerhouse Museum collection, can be viewed at http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=10744 6. http://www.howlspace.com.au/en3/anuchristine/anuchristine.htm 7. http://www.neilmurray.com.au/pages/song_islandhome.html 8. In marked contrast, the film of the same name in which the song fea- tured, set on an unnamed Caribbean island, attracted strong protests for its scenes of interracial romance “although the actors were not allowed to engage in any displays of physical affection on the screen.” Of the film’s two interracial couples, one (Belafonte and Joan Fontaine) are forced to renounce each other at the end, while the second couple must leave the island “so they can be married off camera in England.” Renee Romano, 172 Notes Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003), 166. 9. Diana Loxley, Problematic Shores: The Literature of Islands (London: St Martin’s Press, 1990), 3. 10. Thongchai Winichakul, Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994), 17, emphasis added. 11. Ibid., 15. 12. Ibid., 16. 13. Irit Rogoff, Terra Infirma: Geography’s Visual Culture (London: Rout- ledge, 2000), 21. 14. On the island as the paradigmatic territorial state, see Philip Steinberg, “Insularity, Sovereignty and Statehood: The Representation of Islands on Portolan Charts and the Construction of the Territorial State,” Geo- grafiska Analer 87 B, no. 4 (2005): 253–65. 15. See Michel de Certeau, The Writing of History, trans. Tom Conley (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), xxv–xxvii; Peter Hulme, Colo- nial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean 1492–1797 (London: Methuen, 1986), 1–2. 16. Simon Ryan, The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia (Cam- bridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 105–27; Ross Gibson, South of the West: Postcolonialism and the Narrative Construction of Australia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992), 10. 17. Rod Edmund and Vanessa Smith, eds., Islands in History and Represen- tation (London: Routledge, 2003), 1. 18. On literary representations of the island and their relation to British imperialism, see Loxley, Problematic Shores. 19. Robert P. Marzec, “Enclosures, Colonization, and the Robinson Crusoe Syndrome: A Genealogy of Land in a Global Context,” Boundary 2 29, no. 2 (2002): 137, 139. 20. National Library of Australia, “Documenting Democracy,” my emphasis. National Library of Australia, http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/item .asp?dID=34 21. William Eisler, The Furthest Coast: Images of Terra Australis from the Middle Ages to Captain Cook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 8–11; Ryan, The Cartographic Eye, 112–15; Martin Lewis and Karen Wigen, The Myth of Continents (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 29–30. 22. Ibid. 23. John Gillis, Islands of the Mind: How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic World (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 3–4. 24. Ibid., 3. 25. Ibid., 2. 26. Ibid., 5. 27. Gillian Beer, “The Island and the Aeroplane: The Case of Virginia Woolf,” in Nation and Narration, ed. Homi Bhabha (London: Rout- ledge, 1990), 271. Notes 173 28. S. E. Jackson, “The Water Is