Samuel Selvon (Writers and Their Work) - Softcover

Salick, Roydon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0746309740 ISBN 13: 9780746309742

Verlag: Liverpool University Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

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 island, establishing it as a dialect that meets every exigency of his artistry. He is the most democratic and predictive of Trinidadian writers, establishing the unlimited literary potential of the ordinary man and anticipating concerns of politicians, linguists, and artists.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Roydon Salick was Senior Lecturer in English at UWI, St Augustine, Trinidad, where he taught courses on Shakespeare, Donne to Byron, the Novel I & II, Introduction to Poetry, a specialist course on Selvon (undergraduate) and The Postcolonial Novel (graduate). His books include: The Novels of Samuel Selvon: A Critical Study (2001) and the forthcoming Ismith Khan: The Man & His Works (2011).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0746309740
• ISBN 13: 9780746309742
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 132
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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