ABSTRACT
The conclusion begins with a consideration of an installation by British-Vincentian artist/curator Michael McMillan entitled “The West Indian Front Room”. For McMillan, the front room serves as an entry point for thinking about the journey of West Indian immigrants in Britain and the ambivalence that often accompanied the process of settling and “making home” in this at once familiar and hostile landscape. His installation, like the original rooms it is meant to evoke, also encapsulates many of the arguments put forward in this book. It stands as a physical manifestation of the importance of material security and of having a separate space in which to rebuild the self and the community among the hardships that migration necessarily entails. The chapter then returns to the central questions that animated this research, considering how they have been answered through each of the literary texts explored in the body chapters. Finally, it points to larger questions about the centrality of the domestic space in scholarly research and reiterates its importance as a meaning-making space and a potential site of political resistance.
