Through close readings of fiction emerging from the African, Caribbean and South Asian diasporas Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction: Homing the Metropole, reassesses our conception of home in light of contemporary realities of globalisation and forced migration.

Lucinda Newns is a lecturer in World Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Her work has previously appeared in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and she is co-editor of New Directions in Diaspora Studies: Cultural and Literary Approaches (2018).

1. Introduction: Homing in on Migration

Part I Re-Reading Black Domesticity

2. Mothering in the Diaspora: Creative (Re)Production in Buchi Emecheta's Early London Novels
3. Clean Bodies, Clean Homes: Decolonizing Domesticity in Andrea Levy's Small Island

Part II Islam at Home

4. "The Real Thing": Performing Home in Monica Ali's Brick Lane
5. Domestic Fiction and the Islamic Female Subject: Leila Aboulela's The Translator

Part III Precarious Domesticities

6. Homelessness and the Refugee: Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea
7. Re-Orienting Home: Queer Domesticity in Bernardine Evaristo's Mr Loverman
8. Conclusion: Homing the Metropole