Narratives of return to one’s cultural homeland have become an important genre in literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, even as they've receive less attention than narratives featuring arrival into a metropolitan center (as the immigrant). Narratives of return shed light on the life of diasporic, immigrant, and expatriate communities, exploring the cultural experiences of alienation and marginality in characters who travel from the metropolitan centers back to an ostensible cultural homeland. Exemplified by works like Tayeb Salih’s novel Season of Migration to the North and Chimamada Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah, return narratives explore rich experiences of postcoloniality across various linguistic archives. Narratives of return foster productive entanglements between multiethnic literatures of the US, global Anglophone literature, and world literature translated into English. Our panelists discuss the theme of return journeys in works of literature from across North & West Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. Our first speaker studies cultural alienation through the idea of "unreturning" in the above-mentioned works of Salih and Adichie. Our second speaker discusses nostalgia as the motivating reason for the return journey in Cristina Garcia’s novel Dreaming in Cuban and Bapsi Sidhwa’s An American Brat. Our third presenter studies the vernacular dimensions of the return journey for migrant workers in novels from Nepal and Gorkhaland. Our fourth speaker discusses the uncovering of palimpsestic identities through the return journey in Andrés di Tella’s documentary film Fotografías. Our four panelists will present for their papers for 15 minutes each, followed by a fifteen minute Q&A session.