The author of such works as "A Brighter Sun" (1952), "The Lonely Londoners" (1956), and "The Plains of Caroni" (1970), West Indian novelist Samuel Selvon is attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention. Nonetheless, criticism of his works has largely been imbalanced, with most scholarship focusing primarily on his language. This book corrects that imbalance by placing Selvon's novels within historical, sociological, and ideological contexts. A new interpretation of Selvon's achievement as a novelist, the volume looks, for the first time, at his works in terms of categories of...
The author of such works as "A Brighter Sun" (1952), "The Lonely Londoners" (1956), and "The Plains of Caroni" (1970), West Indian novelist Samuel ...
