This is a comparative study of the highly problematic concept of 'hom' in works by authors born and raised in colonial contexts, and repatriated as young adults to European 'homelands''which they had neverbefore seen. Rhys, Duras, and Dell'Oro write at an angle to nationalist or imperialist constructions of home, and they create what Johnson refers to as terragraphica, or a place from which to write.
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This is a comparative study of the highly problematic concept of 'hom' in works by authors born and raised in colonial contexts, and repatriated as young adults to European 'homelands''which they had neverbefore seen. Rhys, Duras, and Dell'Oro write at an angle to nationalist or imperialist constructions of home, and they create what Johnson refers to as terragraphica, or a place from which to write.
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