In his novel The Lonely Londoners (1956), Samuel Selvon contextualises the lives of Caribbean and their descendants in Britain through his first-hand experiences during the 1950s. He pens the tension between great expectations and realities that West Indians experienced in postwar London, following the huge wave of migration, also known as Windrush in 1948. The aim of this paper is to explore the immigration of West Indians to the Motherland as represented in Lonely Londoners, and to discover how this work critically contributed to the promotion and development of Caribbean and black British writing. The first part of the study focuses on the socio-historical background of the novel, and the second part mainly deals with the representation of immigration and its effects on Caribbean community in the novel. Finally, in the last section’ I would argue that Selvon with his distinctive narrative style in Lonely Londoners contributes to the transformation of new British society, and to the negotiation of a subaltern identity in the Motherland.
Alan : Filoloji; Sosyal, Beşeri ve İdari Bilimler
Dergi Türü : Ulusal
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