Migrant modernism : postwar London and the West Indian novel

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Label

Migrant modernism : postwar London and the West Indian novel

Title remainder

postwar London and the West Indian novel

Statement of responsibility

J. Dillon Brown

Creator

• Brown, J. Dillon, 1971-

Subject

• Englisch
• Karibik
• London
• London (England) -- In literature
• Caribbean fiction -- History and criticism
• Modernism (Literature) -- England | London
• Postcolonialism in literature
• Roman
• West Indian fiction (English) -- History and criticism
• Migrantenliteratur

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--Publisher's website

Cataloging source

DLC

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PR9214

LC item number

.B76 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography