Lynne Pearce, University of Lancaster, UK Lynne Pearce, Hilary Hinds, Alison Easton, Wren Sidhe, Ruth McElroy, Sinead McDermott, Flora Alexander, Rachel Dyer, Charlotte Williams, Helen Boden, Eilish Rooney.

• Contents: Introduction; Devolution and the politics of re/location, Lynne Pearce; ’The Undeveloped Heart’: Forster, Pym and the English South, Hilary Hinds; The debateable land: Ellis Island immigration museum, Margaret Elphinstone’s A Sparrow’s Flight and Border Readings, Alison Easton; A refusal of belonging: I don’t want your straight nation, Wren Sidhe; Traversing Britain: mobility, belonging and home, Ruth McElroy; Putting myself in her place: identity, identification and Irishness in Nuala O’Faolain’s Are you Somebody? and Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, Sinead McDermott; ’Lost Voices, and Fresh Perspectives’: Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners and Candia McWilliam’s Debatable Land, Flora Alexander; ’We’re coming home’: accent(uat)ing nostalgia in Kathleen Jamie’s Autonomous Region and Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey, Rachel Dyer; Driving North / Driving South: reflections upon the spatial/temporal co-ordinates of ’home’, Lynne Pearce; ’I going away, I going home’: mixed ’race’, movement and identity, Charlotte Williams; Highland Lines: the production and imagining of Highland Scotland 1803-1999, Helen Boden; Learning to remember and remembering to forget: Beloved from Belfast, Eilish Rooney; Bibliography; Index.

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