Foreign in London: Diaspora as a Traumatic Experience in Samuel Selvon's The Lonely Londoners
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F18%3A73588315" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/18:73588315 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aa-2018-0002" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aa-2018-0002</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aa-2018-0002" target="_blank" >10.1515/aa-2018-0002</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Foreign in London: Diaspora as a Traumatic Experience in Samuel Selvon's The Lonely Londoners
Original language description
Stuart Hall in Black Britain claims that "the experience of black settlement has been a long, difficult, sometimes bitterly contested and unfinished story." Such is the case in Samuel Selvon's 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners which depicts the trauma of diaspora for West Indian newcomers. People from the Caribbean who have settled in their "mother country" experience total disillusion because they are not welcomed by the white people in Britain who initially invited them to arrive. The paper will discuss in detail the influence British politics has had upon the Windrush generation of immigrants. In addition, the paper will take into consideration the enactment of the 1948 British Nationality Act and its effect upon the black settlers. It will show how the characters cope with animosity, loneliness and the sense of a failed promise that all lead to a traumatic experience of living totally isolated in a foreign city far from their native islands. The immigrants face xenophobia, suffer from being "other", invisible, and segregated. They try to cope with a trauma of "not belonging anywhere", i.e. being uprooted from their homes in the West Indies. In the aftermath of the decolonization process they fail to come to terms with their new living conditions and as there is no return ticket to the Caribbean, they develop an ever growing trauma of unsuccessful resettlement.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ars Aeterna
ISSN
1337-9291
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2018
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
21-27
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85051186825