Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures - Hardcover

DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824831225 ISBN 13: 9780824831226

Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007

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Reseña del editor:

"Routes and Roots" is the first comparative study of Caribbean and Pacific Island literatures and the first work to bring indigenous and diaspora literary studies together in a sustained dialogue. Taking the "tidalectic" between land and sea as a dynamic starting point, Elizabeth DeLoughrey foregrounds geography and history in her exploration of how island writers inscribe the complex relation between routes and roots. The first section looks at the sea as history in literatures of the Atlantic middle passage and Pacific Island voyaging, theorizing the transoceanic imaginary. The second section turns to the land to examine indigenous epistemologies in nation-building literatures. Both sections are particularly attentive to the ways in which the metaphors of routes and roots are gendered, exploring how masculine travelers are naturalized through their voyages across feminized lands and seas. This methodology of charting transoceanic migration and landfall helps elucidate how theories and people travel, positioning island cultures in the world historical process. In fact, DeLoughrey demonstrates how these tropical island cultures helped constitute the very metropoles that deemed them peripheral to modernity. Fresh in its ideas, original in its approach, "Routes and Roots" engages broadly with history, anthropology, and feminist, postcolonial, Caribbean, and Pacific literary and cultural studies. It productively traverses diaspora and indigenous studies in a way that will facilitate broader discussion between these often segregated disciplines.

Biografía del autor:

Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey is associate professor of postcolonial literatures in the Department of English at Cornell University.

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• Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0824831225
• ISBN 13: 9780824831226
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368