Postcolonial Treasure

Treasure Island's Heritage, history and experience of Empire and Colonialism

North, Laurence ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6578-1771 (2024) Postcolonial Treasure. In: 14th Annual International Illustration Research Symposium, Illustration and Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures, 22-23 November 2024, Chelsea School of Art, University of the Arts London..

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Conference poster for the 14th Annual International Illustration Research Symposium

Author – Laurence North
Title - Postcolonial Treasure, , history and experience of Empire and Colonialism

The Four Corners Books Familiars series revisits texts that are part of a literary heritage; the Familiars series is described by the publishers as allowing visual artists to provide a fresh look at the tradition of the illustrated novel.
Stevenson’s Treasure Island was republished in 2022 by Four Corners Books with new illustrations by Shiraz Bayjoo. Bayjoo’s illustrations reframe if not re-author Treasure Island as a Postcolonial text that gives voice to both historical and contemporary peoples previously excluded from the narrative. The Four Corners Books edition also provides us with an interesting model of authorship that provokes engagement with well-established works by Barthes and Foucault that cast Stevenson and Bayjoo as noncooperative co-scriptors in contrast to the normal expectations of the writer illustrator working relationship.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Poster)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Postcolonialism, Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shiraz Bayjoo, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Four Corners Books
Subjects:	Art History & Theory Literature
Department:	Falmouth School of Art
Depositing User:	Laurence North
Date Deposited:	25 Sep 2025 14:54
Last Modified:	25 Sep 2025 14:54
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/6177

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