Introduction1 "Natty Dread Rise Again": The Haunting City and the Promise of Diaspora inMan Gone Down2 "Putting the Best Outside": A Genealogy of Self-Fashioning in Call theMidwife and NW3 The Transnational Semicircle and the "Mobile" Female Subjectin AmmaDarko's Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters Street4 "Writing the Sprawling City": The Transatlantic Drug Trade in A BriefHistory of Seven Killings5 A Door Ajar: Reading and Writing Toronto in Cecil Foster's Sleep On, BelovedConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedIndex