Routes and roots is the first comparative study of caribbean and pacific island literatures and the first work to bring indigenous and diaspora literary studies together in a sustained dialogue taking the tidalectic between land and sea as a dynamic starting point elizabeth deloughrey foregrounds geography and history in her exploration of how island writers inscribe the complex relation between routes and roots. Routes and roots is the first comparative study of caribbean and pacific island literatures and the first work to bring indigenous and diaspora literary studies together in a sustained dialogue. Routes and roots is the first comparative study of caribbean and pacific island literatures and the first work to bring indigenous and diaspora literary studies together in a sustained dialogue. Routes and roots is the first comparative study of caribbean and pacific island literatures and the first work to bring indigenous and diaspora literary studies together in a sustained dialogue taking the tidalectic between land and sea as a dynamic starting point elizabeth deloughrey foregrounds geography and history in her exploration of how island writers inscribe the complex relation between routes and roots