Book contents
- Diaspora and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Diaspora and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Origins Revisited
- Chapter 1 Displaced in Diaspora?
- Chapter 2 Interoceanic Relational Diasporas
- Chapter 3 The Language of Lakay
- Chapter 4 The Insufficiency of Paradigms
- Chapter 5 Lynchpins of Sovereignty
- Chapter 6 Afrofuturist Speculations and Diaspora
- Part II Major Concepts
- Part III Readings in Genre, Gender, and Genealogies
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 2 - Interoceanic Relational Diasporas
A Caribbean Perspective
from Part I - Origins Revisited
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 July 2023
- Diaspora and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Diaspora and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Origins Revisited
- Chapter 1 Displaced in Diaspora?
- Chapter 2 Interoceanic Relational Diasporas
- Chapter 3 The Language of Lakay
- Chapter 4 The Insufficiency of Paradigms
- Chapter 5 Lynchpins of Sovereignty
- Chapter 6 Afrofuturist Speculations and Diaspora
- Part II Major Concepts
- Part III Readings in Genre, Gender, and Genealogies
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter connects Black Atlantic and Indian diasporas in the Caribbean while also noting differences between them. Although a particular aspect of diaspora theory suggests a nostalgic longing for the original homeland in a dual home–host binary, the authors discussed here prefer not to ground themselves in a bounded ethnonational identity tied to a specific location. Rather, the very concept of diaspora is open-ended and multifaceted in their works. Even as they retain memory of and loyalty toward their several homelands and hostlands, they are also critical of the experience of continuing displacement, gender violence, and racism. Their embrace of different and evolving horizons avoids the melancholia associated with diasporic identities. Against the troubling narratives of their sense of unbelonging, they articulate a disjointed, provisional, productive sense of subject formation that is a critical counterpart to exclusionary discourse based on nationalist jingoism and nostalgic idealizations of the homeland.
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- Diaspora and Literary Studies , pp. 49 - 63Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023