ABSTRACT
Migration creates the desire for home, which in turn produces the rewriting of home. Homesickness or homelessness, the rejection of home or the longing for home become motivating factors in this rewriting. Home can only have meaning once one experiences a level of displacement from it. Still home is contradictory, contested space, a locus for misrecognition and alienation. Home, conflated here as a move toward a “myth of unitary origin” as is nationalism, becomes radically disrupted in the writings of Afro-Caribbean women in the US. The woman as writer then doubly disrupts the seamless narrative of home and so of nation. Further, her location in a variety of social and political contexts allows internal critiques of new inscriptions of coloniality and imperialism.
