At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing

by Wendy W. Walters

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816644926
• ISBN13: 9780816644926
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.9"