| At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing Subjects: American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism; Wright Richard 1908–1960 -- Criticism and interpretation; Himes Chester B. 1909 -- Criticism and interpretation; West Indian literature (English) -- Black authors -- History and cr; In At Home in Diaspora, Wendy W. Walters investigates the work of Chester Himes, Michelle Cliff, and other twentieth-century black international writers who have lived in and written from countries they do not call home. Walters suggests that in the absence of a recoverable land of origin, the idea of diaspora comes to represent a home that is not singular or exclusionary. |