This is the second part of a two-part paper co-authored by the members of the Island Poetics Research Group, which introduces a larger project on the poetic construction of islands in island fictions across media, genres, and geographical regions. Traditional island scholarship tends to discuss islands as tropes for a set of often preconceived and fixed meanings (such as isolation, imprisonment, paradise, remoteness, etc.) and thus often bypasses the complex poetic processes through which islands come to be in literary texts. Our intervention in the debate seeks to offer a precise analysis of the practices and operations through which islands are conceived and reconceived. The two parts of this paper examine different modes of island (re)conception in 20thand 21st-century island fiction. They discuss fictional islands as particularly mobile spatial figures that raise the question of what an island is, refusing to offer easy answers and allowing for a reconsideration of the role of islands in contemporary discourse. Against potentially essentialist accounts of what islands ‘are’ and ‘mean’, our close readings of key moments within island narratives engage with the processes through which island spaces are constructed in different media. Part II engages more deeply with the textures of the media themselves in order to analyze the ways in which island metapoetics implicitly or explicitly exposes the processes of island construction. The article ends with a discussion of how island narratives can draw attention to and resist their own conceptions of islandness and thus interrogate the very object of island studies.

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岛形诗学及以后：介绍岛形诗学，第二部分

这是由岛屿诗学研究小组成员共同撰写的两部分论文的第二部分，该论文介绍了有关跨媒体，体裁和地理区域的岛屿小说中岛屿的诗意化建设的较大项目。传统的岛屿学术倾向于将岛屿作为对立的讨论，以表达一系列通常的先入为主且固定的含义（例如，孤立，监禁，天堂，偏僻等），因此常常绕过岛屿成为文学文本的复杂诗意过程。我们在辩论中的干预旨在提供对岛屿构想和重新构想的做法和行动的精确分析。本文的两个部分探讨了20世纪和21世纪海岛小说中不同的海岛（再）观念模式。他们将虚构的岛屿讨论为特别具有流动性的空间人物，从而提出了关于岛屿是什么的问题，拒绝提供简单的答案，并允许重新考虑岛屿在当代话语中的作用。与可能的本质主义论者对“岛”和“均值”的解释相反，我们对岛叙事中关键时刻的仔细阅读涉及到在不同媒体中构建岛空间的过程。第二部分更深入地探讨了媒体本身的纹理，以分析岛屿隐喻学隐性或显性地揭示岛屿建设过程的方式。本文最后讨论了岛屿叙事如何能够引起人们对岛国观念的关注和抵制，从而质疑岛屿研究的真正目的。