3. “I Knew This Was England”: Myths of “Back Home” in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. “Settling Down and Settling Up”: Conceptualizing the Second Generation 1
5. 1. “A Kind of New Vocabulary”: Dionne Brand’s (Re)Mappings in What We All Long For 35
6. 2. “Belonging Is What You Give Yourself”: Tessa McWatt’s Out of My Skin 59
7. 3. “I Knew This Was England”: Myths of “Back Home” in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon 86
8. 4. “The Abuses of Settlement”: Esi Edugyan’s The Second Life of Samuel Tyne 111
9. 5. “When Roots Won’t Matter Any More”: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth 138
10. Conclusion. “Conditions of Possibility” 165
11. Notes 171
12. Works Cited 181
13. Index 193