Neighbor-Homes : Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat Write Hispaniola and the Diaspora.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myers, Megan Jeanette.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

Neighbor-Homes: Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat Write Hispaniola and the Diaspora analyzes the work of two of the most acclaimed contemporary American and Caribbean authors for the first time in a single book.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Endorsement

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface

Notes

Works Cited

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Elsewhere AND Anywhere: Getting Lost at Home

Mobile Writers On the Move

Building Community in the Diaspora/Dyaspora

Forgetting a (Fictionalized) Home: The Uncanny

Wrong Turns in How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

The Page as Home in Brother, I'm Dying

Communication Chains in Brother, I'm Dying

Stories as Transit Points

2 Homes, Wombs, Tombs, and Historical Fiction

Neighborly Violence

The Farming of Bones: Writing the Massacre for the Diaspora

Violence On and at the Water

Words as Markers

In the Time of the Butterflies: From Neighborly Violence to Violence at Home

Building Your "Home On a Rock" in a Fault Zone

A "Differentiated Solidarity" in Testimonial Fiction

3 Neighborly Networks: Personal and Professional Systems of Support

Sisterhood, Ancestral Knowledge, and Writing Across Generations

Dangerous Declarations and Off-Page Activism

Charting a Friendship Between Two Modern Day Scheherazades

Opening Doors and Extending a Hand: Alvarez and Danticat in the Julia Alvarez Papers

4 Conclusion: How to (Never) Write the Final Story

Appendix Home(s) and Literary Lineages:: Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat in Conversation

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-040887-7

OCLC:

1532838436