Includes bibliographical references and index.

CoverTitle PageContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Caribbean Spaces: Reflective Essays/Creative-Theoretical Circulations1. Between the Twilight Zone and the Underground Railroad: "Owega"2. Reimagining the Caribbean: Seeing, Reading, Thinking3. Caribbean/American: The Portable Black Self in Community4. Spirit Scapes: From Brazil to the Caribbean5. Middle Passages: Movable Borders and Ocean-Air Space Mobility6. Women, Labor, and the Transnational: From Work to Work7. Connecting Stories: My Grandmother's Violin8. "Changing Locations": Literary Pathways of Caribbean Migration9. "Haiti, I Can See Your Halo!": Living on Fault Lines10. Caribbean GPS: Compasses of Racialization11. Circulations: Caribbean Political Activism12. My Father Died a Second Time13. Postscript: Escape RoutesBibliographyIndex

Explores the multivalent meanings of Caribbean space and community in a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective. Drawing on both personal experience and critical theory, Carole Boyce Davies illuminates the dynamic complexity of Caribbean culture and traces its migratory patterns throughout the Americas. Both a memoir and a scholarly study, Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones explores the multivalent meanings of Caribbean space and community in a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective.From her childhood in Trinidad and Tobago to life and work in communities and universities in Nigeria, Brazil, England, and the United States, Carole Boyce Davies portrays a rich and fluid set of personal experiences. She reflects on these movements to understand the interrelated dynamics of race, gender, and sexuality embedded in Caribbean spaces, as well as many Caribbean people's traumatic and transformative stories of displacement, migration, exile, and sometimes return. Ultimately, Boyce Davies reestablishes the connections between theory and practice, intellectual work and activism, and personal and private space.