Diaspora studies have tended to privilege urban landscapes over
rural ones, wanting to avoid the racial homogeneity, conservatism,
and xenophobia usually associated with the latter. In Second
Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the
Americas, Sarah Phillips Casteel examines the work of writers such
as Derek Walcott, V. S. Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid, Philip Roth, and
Joy Kogawa, among others, to show how it expresses the appeal that
rural and wilderness spaces can hold for the diasporic
imagination.
Casteel proposes an alternative to postmodern celebrations of
rootlessness, bringing together writers from the Caribbean and
North America who uniquely reimagine the New World landscape from
the vantage point of cultural and geographical dislocation. As
represented in a range of genres and media--fiction, poetry, garden
writing, and installation art--these alternative forms of belonging
reinterpret New World nature as infused with history and as subject
to competing claims, generating a new poetics of American place.
The author's transnational approach also gives significant
attention to Canadian material, which has largely been overlooked
in hemispheric studies of the literature of the Americas.
Contributing to the growing movement of comparative American
studies, Second Arrivals will appeal to scholars and students of
inter-American studies, Caribbean studies, Canadian studies,
diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, and ecocriticism.
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