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

by Sarah Phillips Casteel

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813926394
• ISBN13: 9780813926391
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"