At home in diaspora: Black international writing

"On the clifflike margins of many cultures" : Richard Wright's travels

The postcolonial as post-Enlightenment : Michelle Cliff and the genealogies of history

Harlem on my mind : exile and community in Chester Himes's detective fiction

"A landmark in a foreign land" : Simon Njami's Parisian scenes

History's dispersals : Caryl Phillips's chorus of the common memory.