From Loneliness to Encounter: London in the Windrush Generation Novels of Sam Selvon and Andrea Levy

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

From Loneliness to Encounter: London in the Windrush Generation Novels of Sam Selvon and Andrea Levy

Original language description

The article explores the ways in which Sam Selvon in his pioneering The Lonely Londoners (1956) and Andrea Levy in her Small Island (2004) negotiate London spaces. Although the novels were created half a century apart they both feature the Windrush generation imaginatively reinventing the city through their hybrid language. The London of The Lonely Londoners (in contrast to the novels by George Lamming or, later, V.S. Naipaul) is not only a city of solitude but also a site of possibility, shaped by theCreole language and featuring a specific Caribbean flâneur. Like Selvon, Andrea Levy, who is a second-generation writer, also employs humour when mediating and shaping historical urban spaces. However, whilst acknowledging all the hardships of immigrantexperience, her early twenty-first century sensibility makes her transcend the loneliness and also the sexism of Selvon?s vision in favour of an anticipatory transculturalism.

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2010

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Litteraria Pragensia. Studies in Literature and Culture

ISSN

0862-8424

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Volume of the periodical

20

Issue of the periodical within the volume

40

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

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