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Atlantic Passages
Mark Looker
其他書名
History, Community, and Language in the Fiction of Sam Selvon
出版P. Lang, 1996
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Politics
ISBN08204283619780820428369
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LVZbAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Caribbean novelist Sam Selvon was part of the new wave of post-war West Indian writers - George Lamming, V.S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott among others - who would redefine what «English» literature meant. In novels such as A Brighter Sun and The Lonely Londoners, Selvon invented a literary language at once playful and engaging, moving to the rhythms of both literary modernism and Caribbean folk tales and calypsos. Atlantic Passages is the first book-length study to place Selvon's fiction at the center of postcolonial theoretical debates. It measures Selvon's novels against their social and cultural contexts, gauging their productive counterpoise with ideas of history and community. More fully than any previous study, it maps the landscape of Selvon's novels and their fictional confrontation with modernity in the immigrant enclaves of London and the newly independent Caribbean islands.