Product Description: A comparative study of the highly problematic concept of "home" in works by authors born and raised in colonial contexts and repatriated as young adults to European "homelands" which they had never before seen. They write at an angle to nationalist or imperialist constructions of home and create "terragraphica", or a place from which to write...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Caribbean Ghostwriting addresses a question central to the fields of postcolonial, feminist, and African diasporic studies:how are we to know the colonial past when the lives of colonized and enslaved people were largely written out of history? Caribbean authors Michelle Cliff, Maryse Conde, and Dionne Brand address the silences and gaps of historiography by fleshing out overlooked historical figures in literary form...read more