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Migrant modernism : postwar London and the West Indian novel /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, J. Dillon, 1971-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Subjects:
West Indian fiction (English) > History and criticism.
Caribbean fiction > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Modernism (Literature) > England > London.
London (England) > In literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • At the scene of the time: postwar London
  • "Child of ferment": Edgar Mittelholzer's contrary tradition
  • Engaging the reader: the difficulties of George Lamming
  • A commoner cosmopolitanism: Sam Selvon's literary forms
  • The lyrical enchantments of Roger Mais
  • Coda: Kamau Brathwaite, Wilson Harris, and V. S. Naipaul's Caribbean voice.