num_pages: 264
description: In Home, Masion, Casa, Erica L. Johnson presents a comparative study of the highly problematic concept of "home" in works by authors born and raised in colonial contexts, and repatriated as young adults to European "homelands" which they had never before seen. Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Erminia Dell'Oro -- from British Dominica, French Indo-china, and Italian Eritrea, respectively -- write at an angle to nationalist or imperialist constructions of home. As intercultural subjects, each established in her fiction representations of home which are linked to but never contained by geographical boundaries; instead, home figures as a site of loss or desire, a tool of imperial ideology, and most importantly, a means of grounding their literary voices. By imagining as well as remembering an idea of home, they create what Johnson refers to as terragraphica, or a place from which to write. Johnson shows the importance of terragraphica through an analysis of the related concepts of home, exile, repatriation, and colonial migration.
language: English
title: Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Erminia Dell'Oro
titlecomplete: Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Erminia Dell'Oro
publisher: UNKNO