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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AJ - Písemnictví, mas–media, audiovize

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2010

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Litteraria Pragensia. Studies in Literature and Culture

ISSN

0862-8424

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

20

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

40

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

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Kód UT WoS článku

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