Migrant Modernism: Postwar London and the West Indian Novel

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University of Virginia Press, 2013 - Literary Criticism - 246 pages

In Migrant Modernism, J. Dillon Brown 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, Brown 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.

 

Contents

Acknowledgments
Postwar London
Edgar Mittelholzers Contrary Tradition
The Difficulties of George Lamming
Sam Selvons Literary Forms
The Lyrical Enchantments of Roger Mais
Kamau Brathwaite Wilson Harris and V S Naipauls Caribbean
Notes
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About the author (2013)

J. Dillon Brown is Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis.

Bibliographic information

TitleMigrant Modernism: Postwar London and the West Indian Novel
AuthorJ. Dillon Brown
PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press, 2013
ISBN0813933943, 9780813933948
Length246 pages
Subjects ›  › 

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
  
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