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Critical Perspectives of Sam Selvon
Sam Selvon
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Description for Critical Perspectives of Sam Selvon
Paperback. Series: Three Continents Press. Num Pages: 285 pages, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KJWWT; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 16. Weight in Grams: 414.
This groundbreaking study of prolific Trinidadian writer Sam Selvon includes background essays, interviews with Selvon, and critical assessments of his ten novels and collected short stories. An extensive bibliography and notes on the contributors are included.
In addition to Sam Selvon, the contributors to the work include Whitney Balliett, Harold Barratt, Edward Baugh, Frank Birbalsingh, E.K. Brathwaite, Edith Efron, Michel Fabre, Anson Gonzalez, Louis James, George Lamming, Bruce F. Macdonald, Peter Nazareth, V.S. Naipaul, Sandra Paquet, Jeremy Poynting, Isabel Quigley, Kenneth Ramchand, Eric Roach, Gordon Rohlehr, Andrew Salkey, Clancy Sigal, Derek Walcott, Edward Wilson, and Francis Wyndham.
This groundbreaking study of prolific Trinidadian writer Sam Selvon includes background essays, interviews with Selvon, and critical assessments of his ten novels and collected short stories. An extensive bibliography and notes on the contributors are included.
In addition to Sam Selvon, the contributors to the work include Whitney Balliett, Harold Barratt, Edward Baugh, Frank Birbalsingh, E.K. Brathwaite, Edith Efron, Michel Fabre, Anson Gonzalez, Louis James, George Lamming, Bruce F. Macdonald, Peter Nazareth, V.S. Naipaul, Sandra Paquet, Jeremy Poynting, Isabel Quigley, Kenneth Ramchand, Eric Roach, Gordon Rohlehr, Andrew Salkey, Clancy Sigal, Derek Walcott, Edward Wilson, and Francis Wyndham.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
Series
Three Continents Press
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
Boulder, CO, United States
ISBN
9780894102394
SKU
V9780894102394
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About Sam Selvon
Susheila Nasta is professor of modern literature at the Open University (UK) and editor of the journal Wasafiri.
Reviews for Critical Perspectives of Sam Selvon
Sam Selvon has . . . received critical acclaim through the English-speaking world, and he is indubitably one of the principal fiction writers of the Caribbean; yet, inexplicably, he has not been the subject of a single sustained explication or assessment. The present collection of essays by and about Selvon therefore fills a void and fills it most pleasingly." —A. ... Read more