Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction A.Bery & P.Murray PART I: ON THE BORDER Postcolonial Studies in Ireland C.L.Innes Crossing the Hyphen of History: The Scottish Borders of Anglo-Irishness W.Maley The Politics of Hybridity: Some Problems with Crossing the Border G.Smyth PART II: DIASPORAS Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Identity and Irish Migration to England A.Arrowsmith States of Dislocation: William Trevor's Felicia's Journey and Maurice Leitch's Gilchrist L.Harte & L.Pettitt It's a Free Country: Visions of Hybridity in the Metropolis G.Stoneham I Came All the Way from Cuba So I Could Speak Like This? Cuban and Cubanamerican Literatures in the US N.Araujo PART III: INTERNALIZED EXILES Border Anxieties: Race and Psychoanalysis D.Marriott Nationalism's Brandings: Women's Bodies and Narratives of the Partition S.Singh Internalized Exiles: Three Bolivian Writers K.Richards Writing Other Lives: Native American (Post) Coloniality and Collaborative (Auto) Biography S.Forsyth 'The Limits of Goodwill': The Value and Dangers of Revisionism in Keneally's 'Aboriginal' Novels D.Vernon PART IV: VERSIONS OF HYBRIDITY The Trickster at the Border: Cross-cultural Dialogues in the Caribbean P.Murray Between Speech and Writing: 'La Nouvelle Litterature Antillaise'? S.Haigh Hybrid Texts: Family, State and Empire in a Poem by Black Cuban Poet Excilia Saldana C.Davies Beyond Manicheism: Derek Walcott's Henri Christophe and Dream on Monkey Mountain J.Thieme 'Canvas of Blood': Okigbo's African Modernism D.Richards Closing Statement: Apprenticeship to the Furies W.Harris