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Routes and Roots is the first comparative study of Caribbean and Pacific Island literatures and the first work to bring indigenous and diaspora literary studies together in a sustained dialogue. Taking the "tidalectic" between land and sea as a dynamic starting point, Elizabeth DeLoughrey foregrounds geography and history in her exploration of how island writers inscribe the complex relation between routes and roots.
Original in its approach, Routes and Roots engages broadly with history, anthropology, and feminist, post-colonial, Caribbean, and Pacific literary and cultural studies. It traverses diaspora and indigenous studies in a way that will facilitate broader discussion between these often segregated disciplines.

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In this first comparative study of Caribbean and Pacific Island literature, Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey invokes the cyclical model of the continual movement and rhythm of the ocean ("tidalectics") to destabilize the national, ethnic, and even regional frameworks that have been the mainstays of literary study. The result is a privileging of alter/native epistemologies whereby island cultures are positioned where they should have been all along--at the forefront of the world historical process of transoceanic migration and landfall. The research, determination, and intellectual dexterity that infuse this nuanced and meticulous reading of Pacific and Caribbean literature invigorate and deepen our interest in and appreciation of island literature. --Vilsoni Hereniko, Professor, Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai`i.
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Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey is an associate professor of postcolonial literatures in the Department of English at Cornell University.

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  • PublisherUniv of Hawaii Pr
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 0824831225
  • ISBN 13 9780824831226
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages334
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