ABSTRACT
Chapter 1, “Elsewhere & Anywhere: Getting Lost at Home,” juxtaposes analyses of home and unhomeliness in Alvarez’s and Danticat’s work. The chapter suggests that novels such as Brother, I’m Dying (Danticat) and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (Alvarez) challenge scholarly articulations implying that movement decenters place to instead redress the possibility that movement in the form of travel, adventure, and a search for roots extends and deepens characters’ connections to community and to their diasporic and island networks.
