Routes and Roots
Subtitle: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures (Literature)
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press; University of Hawai'i Press
Published: April 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780824831226
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Caribbean islands; Oceania; General; Caribbean & Latin American; 20th century; Caribbean literature; History and criticism; Pacific Island literature
Description: "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." "Original in its approach, Routes and Roots engages broadly with history, anthropology, and feminist, post-colonial, Caribbean, and Pacific literary and cultural studies. It traverses diaspora and indigenous studies in a way that will facilitate broader discussion between these often segregated disciplines."--Jacket.