(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，归属感和家园问题变得尤为紧迫。拟议的研究项目探讨了（重新）思考的家在21世纪不同来源的加勒比作家的英语侨民写作的多元化语料库，谁居住在美国或加拿大。该项目采用跨学科的方法，促进文学研究、社会科学研究以及空间和流动性的文化研究范式之间的对话，希望对家庭和归属感的复杂问题、当代散居写作中的（重新）谈判以及与北美地缘政治想象变化有关的问题产生创新的见解。最近的美洲研究和比较北美研究/文学范式将美洲视为流动和相互联系的整体分析框架。本研究的主题可以概括如下：21世纪加拿大和美国的加勒比散居作家运用虚构和非虚构写作的美学形式来表现散居的加勒比移民的多样化和复杂的经历。他们的文学文本挑战和（重新）构建跨国形式的归属感模式，并作为潜在的生产空间发挥作用，在这些空间中，家的概念可能被话语（重新）生产和（重新）协商。这项调查的核心将是加勒比侨民的演员如何动员他们继承和/或构建复杂的，经常是矛盾的位置和定位（重新）思考和（重新）写回家，以及这种动员如何在加勒比侨民作家的当代作品中具体化的相关问题。其他目标包括对移民/移民相关术语的批判性评估和发展，如散居和迁移，以及范式或镜头，易位和易位定位（Anthias 2012），这些术语有助于概念化散居主体的复杂定位。通过这种方式，该项目声称美学文物可以激发理论的发展。该项目进一步认为，所选作品中对家庭的分析为在理论层面上探索地缘政治想象提供了一个有价值的起点。该项目探索了加勒比地区、加拿大和美国作为相互联系的移民/移民地点。它严峻地挑战和冒险超越缩小的南北分歧，并进入美洲内部迫切需要的多种关系对话。由于很少有研究采用实际案例研究的方法，将最新的时空和社会空间术语应用于美洲（后殖民）文献中的家的研究，本研究项目旨在弥补一个重要的空白。

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.