Neighbor-Homes: Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat Write Hispaniola and the Diaspora [Hardcover]

Neighbor-Homes: Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat Write Hispaniola and the Diaspora analyzes the work of two of the most acclaimed contemporary American and Caribbean authors for the first time in a single book.?

Introduction; 1: Elsewhere & Anywhere: Getting Lost at Home; 2: Homes, Wombs, Tombs, and Historical Fiction; 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

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. Myerss 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).

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 Spacel3%