Settling into ‘unhomeliness’: Displacement in selected Caribbean and Caribbean Canadian women’s writing

Authors

Evelyn OCallaghan

Abstract

Faced with horrific daily evidence of the consequences of polarisation on the ‘grounds’ of difference (racial, ethnic, religious), I find myself increasingly emphasising culture contact and transculturation in my teaching practice. This is a reasonable enough focus in the Caribbean context, and it certainly is appropriate to my history as a product of such processes: my parents were born in two different countries, I was born in a third, brought up in a fourth and live and work in yet another; my children were born in one country, of parents born in two other countries, and they too will very likely end up living and working somewhere else; and so the cycle continues.

Recommended Citation

OCallaghan, Evelyn, Settling into ‘unhomeliness’: Displacement in selected Caribbean and Caribbean Canadian women’s writing, Kunapipi, 26(1), 2004.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol26/iss1/19