TY - BOOK ID - 1681779 TI - Second arrivals: landscape and belonging in contemporary writing of the Americas PY - 2007 SN - 9780813926391 9780813926384 PB - Charlottesville, Va University of Virginia Press DB - UniCat KW - Migration. Refugees KW - American literature KW - Thematology KW - LITTERATURE ANGLAISE KW - Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise KW - PAYSAGES DANS LA LITTERATURE KW - MINORITES DANS LA LITTERATURE KW - EMIGRATION ET IMMIGRATION DANS LA LITTERATURE KW - LIEU (PHILOSOPHIE) KW - JARDINS KW - AUTEURS APPARTENANT A DES MINORITES KW - HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE KW - Histoire et critique KW - 20E SIECLE KW - DANS LA LITTERATURE KW - Émigration et immigration KW - Dans la littérature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1681779 AB - 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. ER -