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Critical perspectives on Sam Selvon
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ISBN: 0894102397 0894102389 Year: 1988 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Three Continents Press,

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Sur le terrain de la traduction : parcours traductologique au coeur du roman de Samuel Selvon "The lonely Londoners"
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ISBN: 1897018126 Year: 2005 Publisher: Toronto : Editions du Gref,

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The novels of Samuel Selvon : a critical study
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ISBN: 0313316368 Year: 2001 Volume: 102 Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,


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The anglo-caribbean migration novel
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ISBN: 128257521X 9786612575211 1441648461 9781441648464 8479087870 9788479087876 Year: 2004 Publisher: Alicante Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante

Sam Selvon's dialectal style and fictional strategy
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ISBN: 0774803649 9786613226037 0774856653 1283226030 Year: 1991 Publisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press,

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Sam Selvon, a contemporary writer of major importance, is well known to British and Caribbean readers, but his work -- including ten novels -- has not attained the prominence it deserves internationally. This study is a literary analysis of Selvon's use of Trinidad Creole English as an important component of his style and method of fictional composition. Wyke follows the development of Selvon's writing from his early to his late career, starting with his first novel, A Brighter Sun (1952), continuing with The Lonely Londoners (1956) and the short stories Ways of Sunlight (1957), and devoting a large part of the book to Selvon's middle and later years, focusing on such novels as I Hear Thunder (1963), The Housing Lark (1965), and Those Who Eat the Cascadura (1972). He finishes with the last two works of Selvon's trilogy, Moses Ascending (1975) and Moses Migrating (1983). The book reveals Selvon as a serious pioneer in the use of dialect in narration instead of mainly in the dialogue of novels and other fiction writing. Wyke's concise and penetrating analysis of individual novels and short stories, including the lyrical story 'My Girl and the City,' and his demonstration of features of Trinidad Creole English as a versatile tool in the hands of a novelist, will appeal to literary critics as well as to those who are interested in the relationship between linguistics and literary criticism. Selvon's work often combines an interesting and humorous, yet serious, portrayal of the Commonwealth experience which will sound familiar to Caribbean, English, and Canadian audiences. This book will introduce new readers to his oeuvre and will be particularly appealing to those examining the connection between the Caribbean, Canada, and Britain -- places where Selvon has lived and from where he draws the rich material he uses to create his art.


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Shuttling through cultures towards identity
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Year: 1996 Publisher: Université de Savoie. CREPLA,


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The storyworld accord
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ISBN: 9780803243989 0803243987 0803280785 9780803280786 9780803280762 0803280769 9780803280779 0803280777 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lincoln

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"Storyworlds," mental models of context and environment within which characters function, is a concept used to describe what happens in narrative. Narratologists agree that the concept of storyworlds best captures the ecology of narrative interpretation by allowing a fuller appreciation of the organization of both space and time, by recognizing reading as a process that encourages readers to compare the world of a text to other possible worlds, and by highlighting the power of narrative to immerse readers in new and unfamiliar environments.Focusing on the work of writers from Trinidad and Nigeria, such as Sam Selvon and Ben Okri, The Storyworld Accord investigates and compares the storyworlds of nonrealist and postmodern postcolonial texts to show how such narratives grapple with the often-collapsed concerns of subjectivity, representation, and environment, bringing together these narratological and ecocritical concerns via a mode that Erin James calls econarratology. Arguing that postcolonial ecocriticism, like ecocritical studies, has tended to neglect imaginative representations of the environment in postcolonial literatures, James suggests that readings of storyworlds in postcolonial texts helps narrative theorists and ecocritics better consider the ways in which culture, ideologies, and social and environmental issues are articulated in narrative forms and structures, while also helping postcolonial scholars more fully consider the environment alongside issues of political subjectivity and sovereignty.

West Indian literature
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ISBN: 0333594630 Year: 1995 Publisher: Basingstoke Macmillan

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