Routes and roots : navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island literatures / Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M., 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature.

Pacific Island literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Pacific Island literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 334 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2007]

Contents:

Preface: Genealogies of Place ix

Introduction: Tidalectics: Navigating Repeating Islands 1

I The Sea is History: Transoceanic Diasporas

Chapter 1 Middle Passages: Modernity and Creolization 51

Chapter 2 Vessels of the Pacific: An Ocean in the Blood 96

II Indigenous Landscapes and National Settlements

Chapter 3 Dead Reckoning: National Genealogies in Aotearoa/New Zealand 161

Chapter 4 Adrift and Unmoored: Globalization and Urban Indigeneity 196

Chapter 5 Landfall: Carib and Arawak Sedimentation 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-324) and index.

ISBN:

9780824831226

0824831225

OCLC:

74459989