There has been much focus on the imperial gaze at colonized peoples, cultures, and lands during and after the British empire. But what have writers from these cultures made of England, the English, and the issues of race, gender, class, ethnicity and desire when they traveled, expatriated, or emigrated to England? The authors address this question through studies of representations of the English, the domestic novel and the Bildungsroman, and through essays on Mansfield, Rhys, Stead, Lessing, Naipaul, Emecheta, Rushdie, and Dabydeen.

Much attention has focused on the imperial gaze at colonised peoples, cultures, and lands. But, during and after the British Empire, what have writers from those cultures made of England, the English, and issues of race, gender, class, ethnicity, and desire when they have travelled, expatriated, or emigrated to England? This question is addressed through studies of the domestic novel and the Bildungsroman , and through essays on Mansfield, Rhys, Stead, Emecheta, Lessing, Naipaul, Emecheta, Rushdie and Dabydeen.