List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Beyond Borders: Diasporic Explorations of Homes and Ancestral Homelands



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3. The Search for a Home in Migratory Societies: Evaluating Hikmet Temel Akarsu’s Adoration for Abroad in the Context of Architecture and Migration.

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5. The Identity of the Caribbean “Others”: Maryse Condé and the Women’s Question in Diaspora.

6. “Shameless Old Men”: Home, Domesticity, Queerness, and the Latvian American Writer Anšlavs Eglītis.

7. Intertextuality and Fragmentation in Rabih Alameddine’s I, The Divine: The Crisis of Transnational Identity and Immigration.

8. To Make Where You Are Your Home: Hatsuye Egami’s Migration and Writings in Japanese American Concentration Camps.



9. Where Do We Belong? Glocal Blackness and The Family Unit in Diasporic African Literatures.

10. “London Is the Place for Me”: Language, Community Building, and Homemaking in Sam Selvon’s Moses Trilogy.

11. Longing for Dissonance: Writing Community in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home.



12. Coming to Terms with the Hyphen: The Homecoming of a "Cultural Go-Between" in Andrew X. Pham's Catfish and Mandala.

13. Homing Laptop: Return to Reset via Chinese TV Series

14. A Tale of Home and Rupture: Friendship, Race, and Ignorance in Albert Wendt’s Sons for the Return Home.

Conclusion

15. Mapping the Multidisciplinary Study of Home and Ancestral Homeland.

Selected Bibliography

Index