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- Routes and Roots
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: University of Hawai'i Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Preface: Genealogies of Place
- pp. ix-xiv
- Note on the Text
- p. xv
- Part I. The Sea is History: Transoceanic Diasporas
- Part II. Indigenous Landscapes and National Settlements
- 5. Landfall: Carib and Arawak Sedimentation
- pp. 229-268
- References
- pp. 297-324
Additional Information
ISBN
9780824864187
Related ISBN(s)
9780824831226
MARC Record
OCLC
257432656
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No