Even though diasporic existence is often steeped in alienation and loss, fragmentation and mourning, the diasporic paradigm may also be shaped in a more creative and diverse way, reaching beyond the chasms of historical and geographical dislocation. Ramabai Espinet, born in Trinidad from Indian ancestors and living in Canada, has explored multiple itineraries on the path to diasporic self-empowerment. By using the letter and the cinematographic image both as themes and rhetorical tools in her novel The Swinging Bridge, Espinet has opened up a renewed space of creation, restructuring the perspective her fictional character has on her own life. Returning to a certain number of geographical and symbolical sites is indeed necessary to evolve a new perception of the world and the self, a new place-time.