Homing the Metropole presents a new approach to diasporic fiction that reorients postcolonial readings of migration away from processes of displacement and rupture towards those of placement and homemaking.

Lucinda Newns is a Lecturer in the Department of English, Queen Mary, at the University of London

1. Introduction: Homing in on Migration 2. Mothering (in) the Diaspora: Creative (Re)Production in Buchi Emecheta's, Second-Class Citizen 3. Performing Home in Monica Ali's Brick Lane 4. (Un)Domesticating Englishness: Andrea Levy's Small Island 5. Homelessness and the Refugee: Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea 6. Vexed Domesticity: Queer Migration in Bernardine Evaristo's Mr Loverman 7. Domestic Fiction and the Islamic Female Subject: Leila Aboulela's The Translator 8. Conclusion