Provincializing Island Poetics: The Personal as the Spatial in N S Madhavan's *Litanies of Dutch Battery*

Affect towards islands is a unique approach to engage with in discussions of the phenomenology of fictional islands. This affect complements the already identified tropes within island poetics: those of sensorial exploration, spatial practices, and textural detailing of islands. This article turns to a work of fiction about a fictional island based on the island city of Kochi in south India to unpack an alternative aesthetic of spatiality, the kind that changes the personal/political relationship to personal/spatial one. We argue that the novel, *Litanies of Dutch Battery* (the novel in questi... Mehr ...