Abstract
Men have always divided up the world up into regions having either real or imagined distinction from each other. —Edward Said, Orientalism, 39. I will start where many others have also begun—with the road. Island Road to Isle de Jean Charles is not exactly a road but more like a levee now; the earth has been dug out from somewhere else and built up against the water in a futile attempt to provide easy access to the oil and gas industry pipelines crisscrossing the area. Constructed in the mid-twentieth century when oil expansion was booming throughout the coast of Louisiana and Texas, the road provided not only the infrastructure to put in new pipelines but also a bridge between Isle de Jean Charles and the chiliagon-shaped coastline. The road is a good metaphor, perhaps too good, for the spatial and discursive distance of the island from the central powers...
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