1st Edition
Neighbor-Homes Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat Write Hispaniola and the Diaspora
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Elsewhere and Anywhere: Getting Lost at Home
Chapter 2: Homes, Wombs, Tombs, and Historical Fiction
Chapter 3: Neighborly Networks: Personal and Professional Systems of Support
Conclusion: How to (Never) Write the Final Story
Appendix: Home(s) and Literary Lineages: Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat in Conversation
Index
Biography
Megan Jeanette Myers is Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Iowa State University, USA. Myers is the author of Mapping Hispaniola: Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature (2019) and the co-editor of The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic (2021).
The very best of Hispaniola. A must read for Danticat and Alvarez fans. Myers weaves the story of these two literary giants, highlighting their passion and love of their countries and how they have inspired each other for decades.”
-Patricia Thorndike Suriel, Founder and Executive Director, Mariposa DR Foundation
“We live in a world with bloody borders. Myers’s account of Alvarez and Danticat, two of the most important living writers and activists of Hispaniola and its diasporas working to heal the open wounds at the heart of the island, is necessary reading for anyone seeking to understand the transnational Caribbean and anyone contemplating how to recall and work through past tragedies that have become scar tissue between nations that is so thick we often mistake it for skin.”
- John T. Maddox IV, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Professor of Spanish and author of Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women (U of Wales P, 2022).
