Sissy Helff is currently guest professor for English literature and visual culture at the University of Darmstadt. Her most recent publications include several co-edited volumes: Die Kunst der Migration: Aktuelle Positionen zum europäisch-afrikanischen Diskurs; Material – Gestaltung – Kritik (2011), Facing the East in the West: Images of Eastern Europe in British Literature, Film and Culture (2010), Transcultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe (2009), and Transcultural English Studies (2008). She is currently working on a book dealing with the image of the refugee in British writing and a collection of essays dealing with Alice in Wonderland.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Homemaking in a Globalized WorldOf Social and Imaginary HomeworldsSouth Asian Homeworlds, Transnational AlliancesCommon Narrative Ground: Transcultural Narrative UnreliabilityHoming in on Unreliable StorytellingFictionalizing South Asian Diasporic Homemaking: Farida Karodia’s Other Secrets & Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at NightGrowing Up in Transcultural Diasporic Worlds: Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Homework, Meera Syal’s Anita and Me, and Shobha Dé’s Strange ObsessionTranscultural Disillusionments: Oonya Kempadoo’s Tide RunningConclusion: South Asian Diasporic Writing and the Transcultural ImaginaryWorks CitedIndex

Sissy Helff is currently guest professor for English literature and visual culture at the University of Darmstadt. Her most recent publications include several co-edited volumes: Die Kunst der Migration: Aktuelle Positionen zum europäisch-afrikanischen Diskurs; Material – Gestaltung – Kritik (2011), Facing the East in the West: Images of Eastern Europe in British Literature, Film and Culture (2010), Transcultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe (2009), and Transcultural English Studies (2008). She is currently working on a book dealing with the image of the refugee in British writing and a collection of essays dealing with Alice in Wonderland.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Homemaking in a Globalized WorldOf Social and Imaginary HomeworldsSouth Asian Homeworlds, Transnational AlliancesCommon Narrative Ground: Transcultural Narrative UnreliabilityHoming in on Unreliable StorytellingFictionalizing South Asian Diasporic Homemaking: Farida Karodia’s Other Secrets & Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at NightGrowing Up in Transcultural Diasporic Worlds: Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Homework, Meera Syal’s Anita and Me, and Shobha Dé’s Strange ObsessionTranscultural Disillusionments: Oonya Kempadoo’s Tide RunningConclusion: South Asian Diasporic Writing and the Transcultural ImaginaryWorks CitedIndex

Sissy Helff is currently guest professor for English literature and visual culture at the University of Darmstadt. Her most recent publications include several co-edited volumes: Die Kunst der Migration: Aktuelle Positionen zum europäisch-afrikanischen Diskurs; Material – Gestaltung – Kritik (2011), Facing the East in the West: Images of Eastern Europe in British Literature, Film and Culture (2010), Transcultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe (2009), and Transcultural English Studies (2008). She is currently working on a book dealing with the image of the refugee in British writing and a collection of essays dealing with Alice in Wonderland.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Homemaking in a Globalized WorldOf Social and Imaginary HomeworldsSouth Asian Homeworlds, Transnational AlliancesCommon Narrative Ground: Transcultural Narrative UnreliabilityHoming in on Unreliable StorytellingFictionalizing South Asian Diasporic Homemaking: Farida Karodia’s Other Secrets & Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at NightGrowing Up in Transcultural Diasporic Worlds: Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Homework, Meera Syal’s Anita and Me, and Shobha Dé’s Strange ObsessionTranscultural Disillusionments: Oonya Kempadoo’s Tide RunningConclusion: South Asian Diasporic Writing and the Transcultural ImaginaryWorks CitedIndex