This article examines how islands are represented as post-violence spaces in contemporary literary scholarship. Drawing on Critical Island Studies and employing a Narrative Literature Review (NLR), the study synthesises interdisciplinary literary research analysing island narratives in relation to violence, trauma, fear, and resistance. Rather than treating islands as neutral or isolated settings, the article conceptualises them as relational landscapes shaped by colonial structures, mobility, and global violence. Using relationality, structural and cultural violence, and trauma belatedness as analytical lenses, the synthesis identifies recurring patterns across literary contexts. The findings show that island narratives position insularity at the intersection of isolation and connectivity, where colonial domination, displacement, and repression shape spatial relations and social life. Within these conditions, fear, trauma, resistance, and healing emerge as co-present and non-linear processes embedded in memory and everyday relations. By synthesising diverse literary scholarship, the study demonstrates how archipelagic literature illuminates the persistence of violence and relational practices through which communities sustain meaning and continuity. The study highlights the value of interdisciplinary literary approaches bridging island, violence, and trauma studies.

post-violence islandsliterary studiescritical island studiesnarrative literature reviewtrauma and resistance