TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,J.Dillon
TI  - Migrant modernism: postwar London and the West Indian novel 
SN  - 9780813933955
AV  - PR9214 .B76 2013eb
U1  - 813.009/9729 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - West Indian fiction (English)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Caribbean fiction
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - Roman antillais (anglais)
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Roman antillais
KW  - Postcolonialisme dans la littérature
KW  - Modernisme (Littérature)
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - Londres
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Literature
KW  - London (England)
KW  - In literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - The author examines the intersection between British literary modernism and the foundational West Indian novels that emerged in London after World War II. By emphasizing the location in which anglophone Caribbean writers such as George Lamming, V.S. Naipaul, and Samuel Selvon produced and published their work, the author reveals a dynamic convergence between modernism and postcolonial literature that has often been ignored. Modernist techniques not only provided a way for these writers to mark their difference from the aggressively English, literalist aesthetic that dominated postwar literature in London but also served as a self-critical medium through which to treat themes of nationalism, cultural inheritance, and identity
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