Casteel (English, Carleton U.) analyzes works by diasporic writers and artists from North America and the Caribbean--Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth,
Joy Kogawa, Michael Pollan, Shani Mootoo, Gis癡le Pineau, Maryse Cond矇, Isaac Julien, and Jin-me Yoon--in terms of how they portray geographical places as meaningful, using rural and wilderness
settings and landscape representation. She discusses the symbolism of the rural, and representations of dislocation against rural or wilderness backgrounds, such as the pastoral, garden
writing, and island nature. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
