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Although he never lived in Harlem, Chester Himes commented that he
experienced "a sort of pure homesickness" while creating the
Harlem-set detective novels from his self-imposed exile in Paris.
Through writing, Himes constructed an imaginary home informed both
by nostalgia for a community he never knew and a critique of the
racism he left behind in the United States. Half a century later,
Michelle Cliff wrote about her native Jamaica from the United
States, articulating a positive Caribbean feminism that at the same
time acknowledged Jamaica's homophobia and color prejudice.
In "At Home in Diaspora," Wendy Walters investigates the work of
Himes, Cliff, and three other twentieth-century black international
writers--Caryl Phillips, Simon Njami, and Richard Wright--who have
lived in and written from countries they do not call home. Unlike
other authors in exile, those of the African diaspora are doubly
displaced, first by the discrimination they faced at home and again
by their life abroad. Throughout, Walters suggests that in the
absence of a recoverable land of origin, the idea of diaspora comes
to represent a home that is not singular or exclusionary. In this
way, writing in exile is much more than a literary performance; it
is a profound political act.
Wendy W. Walters is assistant professor of literature at Emerson
College.
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