K. Dautel/K. Schödel: Introduction I. Theory: Mapping Insularity K. Schödel: Forms of Insularity: Private Circles and Utopian Isles M. Aquilina: Shores, Cliffs and Other Shifting Frames: The Island as a Trope of Non-Insularity U. Stamm: Theoretical Ideas About Insularity and Literary Perspectives on Islands C. Hilmes: Essay and Aphorism - The Archipelago and the Island among Literary Genres J. Zimmermann: Sullivan s Island: An Exemplary Postcolonial Site D. Vanderbeke: Islands in Space II. German Literature: Aesthetic Reflections of Insularity J. Vomhof: The Topos of Seduction in Rilke s The Island of the Sirens E. Petropoulou: In Limbo. Of feathers, socks, butterflies and spools or the form which things assume in oblivion . Metonymies of heterotopic experience in Walter Benjamin s Berlin childhood around 1900 A. Rösser: Troubled Hegemony. The Galiana in Lion Feuchtwanger s Die Jüdin von Toledo as Multicultural insula amoena and Heterotopian Model for Dealing with the Other S. Zubarik: Die sozialistische Umgestaltung einer Insel : The Novel Die Insel by Matthias Wegehaupt K. Dautel: Cartography as the Pleasure of the Symbolic - Judith Schalansky s Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln K. Bauer: Utopian Insularity and the Colonial Legacy of Heterotopian Empires. Christian Kracht s Novel Imperium III. Maltese, English and French Literatures: Island Myths and Other Spaces P. Mattern: Rabelais Travelling Giant J. Riquet: The Island as Territory: Darwin s Legacy in Island Myths from H.G. Wells to Amitav Ghosh A. Grima: Double Insularity. Mamo s Quixotic Tale of Emigration R. Spiteri: Laurent Ropa and Paul Achard: Second Thoughts on Colonial Encroachments U. Hackenbruch: Mind Maps - Concepts of Insularity in American Post-War Writing P. Arnds: Island as Forest, Forest as Island: Insularity and the Homo Sacer in William Golding and Michel Tournier J. Corby: An Island No Man Is: Insularity without Subjectivity in Coetzee s Foe D. Graziadei: Une goutte de désert jettée à l eau - the Creation of Islands and Mythology in Contemporary Caribbean Literatures (Anglophone and Francophone Poetry) IV. Interculturality and Intermediality: Insular Spaces between Cultures and Media G. Schembri Bonaci: Insularity in the Arts. The Relationship between the Maltese Art Scene and the Development of Modern Art H. Burggrabe: Sicily as Island of the Between in German language authors of the 20th Century G. Lauri-Lucente: A Sleep and a Remembrance: Sicily and its Mythic Landscape in Film A. Seidel-Arpaci: Islands for the Poor? German Allotment Gardens, Body Politic, and the Racialised Nation R. Baumgartner: Utopia and the Illusion of Choice - Islands in Anno 2070