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Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas

by Sarah Phillips Casteel
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780813926384
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Virginia Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press
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  • Pages: 272
  • Original Price: USD 75.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 477 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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.

Sarah Phillips Casteel is Assistant Professor of English at Carleton University.

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