The literature of Caribbean writers
living in the United States carries with
it a duality, an awareness of multiple
sites of identity as well as conflict of
place and space. Easily grouped with
African Americans, Caribbean peoples and
other immigrants from the African
Diaspora make up a quasi-political
faceﾽBlack America. But as immigrants
from a former colonized community,
Caribbean immigrants carry with them a
historical experience that
differentiates them from African
Americans. Caribbean immigrants thus
stand on the border of two spaces.
Professor Josie Brown-Rose will explore
the impact this duality has on Caribbean
literature written by writers who have
left the ﾽhomeﾽ space for American soil
through a discussion of her book titled
ﾽCritical Nostalgia and Caribbean
Migration.ﾽ
This program is co-sponsored by the
Department of English and DﾽAmour Library.
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