(Re-)Thinking Home: 21st-Century Caribbean Diaspora Writing and Geopolitical Imaginaries in North America

在一个以全球资本主义、极端不平等和大规模移民为特征的世界里，归属和家园问题变得尤为紧迫。拟议的研究项目探讨（重新）在21世纪的英语散居写作的加勒比海作家，谁居住在美国或加拿大的多元化语料库的家的思考。在采取跨学科的方法，促进文学研究，社会科学以及空间和流动性的文化研究范式之间的对话，该项目旨在发展创新的见解，对家庭和归属感的复杂问题，他们（重新）在当代散居写作的谈判，并在北美的地缘政治转变。最近的美洲研究和比较北美研究/文学范式，将美洲视为移动的和相互关联的功能作为整体分析框架。要研究的研究论文可以表述如下：21世纪世纪在加拿大和美国的加勒比散居作家采用虚构和非虚构写作的美学形式来表现多分散的多样和复杂的经历，加勒比移民他们的文学文本挑战并（重新）构建了跨国归属形式的模式，并作为潜在的生产空间发挥作用，在这种空间中，家的概念可以被话语（重新）生产和（重新）谈判。这项调查的核心将是相互关联的问题，即加勒比散居地的行为者如何动员他们继承和/或构建的复杂且往往相互矛盾的地点和定位，以（重新）思考和（重新）写回家，以及这种动员如何在加勒比散居地作家的当代作品中实现。其他目标包括批判性评估和移民/移民相关术语的发展，如散居和轮回，以及范式，或镜头，易位和易位定位（Anthias 2012），这有助于概念化散居主体的复杂定位。通过这种方式，该项目声称，审美文物可以发挥作用，激发理论的发展。该项目进一步认为，对所选著作中家园的分析为在理论层面上探索地缘政治的起源提供了一个有价值的起点。该项目探讨了加勒比地区，加拿大和美国作为连接的移民/移民地点。它对缩小的南北鸿沟提出了严峻的挑战，并冒险超越这种鸿沟，在美洲内部就多种关系进行迫切需要的对话。由于存在相对较少的研究，采取了实际的案例研究的方法，在应用最新的时空和社会空间的术语，在美洲（后殖民）文学的家的研究，本研究项目打算关闭一个重要的差距。

In a world characterized by global capitalism, extreme inequalities, and mass migrations, questions of belonging and home become particularly pressing. The proposed research project explores the (re-)thinking of home in a diversified corpus of 21st-century Anglophone diaspora writing by Caribbean authors of different origins, who reside in the US or Canada. In taking an interdisciplinary approach, which fosters dialogue between the study of literature, the social sciences, as well as cultural studies paradigms of space and mobility, the project aspires to develop innovative insights on the complex issues of home and belonging, their (re)negotiation in contemporary diaspora writing, and in relation to shifting geopolitical imaginaries in North America. Recent Inter-American Studies and Comparative North American Studies/Literature paradigms that view the Americas as mobile and interconnected function as overall analytical framework.The research thesis which is to be investigated can be phrased as follows: 21st- century Caribbean diaspora writers in Canada and the United States employ aesthetic forms of fictional and non-fictional writing to represent the diverse and complex experiences of the multiply dispersed, transmigrant Caribbean diaspora. Their literary texts challenge and (re-)construct mode(l)s of transnational forms of belonging and function as potential productive spaces in which notions of home may be discursively (re-)produced and (re-)negotiated. Central to this investigation will be the interrelated questions of how actors of the Caribbean diaspora mobilize their inherited and/or constructed complex and often contradictory locations and positionings to (re-)think and (re-)write home and how this mobilization is materialized in contemporary works of Caribbean diaspora writers. Other objectives include the critical assessment and development of im/migration-related terminologies such as diaspora and transmigration, as well as of paradigms, or lenses, of translocation and translocational positionality (Anthias 2012) which serve to conceptualize the complex positionings of the diasporic subject. In this way, the project claims that aesthetic artifacts can function to inspire the development of theory. The project further argues that the analysis of home in the chosen writings presents a valuable starting point for the exploration of geopolitical imaginaries on a theoretical level. The project explores the Caribbean, Canada, and the US as connected im/migrant locations. It critically challenges and ventures beyond a reductive North-South divide and enters into an urgently needed dialogue of multiple relations within the Americas. As there exists comparatively little research which takes a practical case-study approach in applying more recent spatio-temporal and socio-spatial terminologies to the study of home in (postcolonial) literatures in the Americas, this research project intends to close an important gap.