Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction: Metaphor and Diaspora Tropes of Diasporic Life in the Work of Nadeem Aslam Becoming Foreign: Tropes of Migrant Identity in Three Novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah 'My split self and my split world': Troping Identity in Mohsin Hamid's Fiction 'Beige outlaws': Hanif Kureishi, Miscegenation and Diasporic Experience Metaphors of Belonging in Andrea Levy's Small Island Ancestry, Uncertainty and Dislocation in V. S. Naipaul's Half a Life Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas in the Work of Caryl Phillips Metaphors of the Secular in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie White Teeth's Embodied Metaphors: the Moribund and the Living Orpheus in the Alpujarras: Metaphors of Arrival in Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons References