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Samuel Selvon
Roydon Salick
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The first full-length study of Selvon that covers all aspects of his fictional world – poems, radio dramas, short fiction, and novels. It shows the evolution of Selvon as fledging author of poems and short fiction to an established short-story writer and novelist. It argues that Selvon enjoys a special niche in West Indian literature because of his celebration of the enormous struggle of the Indo-Trinidadian peasant out of the cane experience into every professional field and politics, of the glamorization of the West Indian immigrant (The Lonely Londoners), and of his daring use of the linguistic continuum of his ... Read more
The first full-length study of Selvon that covers all aspects of his fictional world – poems, radio dramas, short fiction, and novels. It shows the evolution of Selvon as fledging author of poems and short fiction to an established short-story writer and novelist. It argues that Selvon enjoys a special niche in West Indian literature because of his celebration of the enormous struggle of the Indo-Trinidadian peasant out of the cane experience into every professional field and politics, of the glamorization of the West Indian immigrant (The Lonely Londoners), and of his daring use of the linguistic continuum of his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
132
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746309742
SKU
V9780746309742
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Ref
99-1
About Roydon Salick
Roydon Salick, formerly of the Department of Liberal Arts, UWI, St. Augustine, Trinidad, teaches language, communication and literature at the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAATT). He has published articles on Wordsworth and on such West Indian authors as Sam Selvon, Zee Edgell, Michael Anthony, Mervyn Morris, Lionel Hutchinson, Beryl Gilroy, and Sonny Ladoo. ... Read more
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