Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Caribbean Diasporas and Narrated Lives -- Diasporic Homelands. When Home Hurts: Edwidge Danticat's Journeys of Healing -- Absent Fathers and Crumbling Origins: Jamaica Kincaid and the (Im)possibility of Home -- "I and Jamaica is Who I am": Michelle Cliff's Ambivalent Homecomings -- Caryl Phillips's Transatlantic Homes -- Uprooting, Migrancy, Regrounding: Re-Writing Exile. Routes, Roots, and Imaginary Nations: Jamaica Kincaid's Restless Gardens and Michelle Cliff's Dangerous Crossings -- Homines Sacri: The Discourse of Refugees in Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying and Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore -- Paradise Islands, Wild Nature, and the Contemporary Tourist Gaze: Re/locating the Caribbean. Edwidge Danticat's Landscapes of Memory -- In the Land of Look Behind: Rebellion and Resistance in Michelle Cliff -- Abject Bodies, Dis/eased Islands: Jamaica Kincaid's Elegiac Song to Antigua -- Back to the Roots: Caryl Phillips' Caribbean Land(Sea)scapes -- Epilogue: Caribbean Diasporic Voices in a Post-9/11 America.
Series:
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 63
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