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Diaspora, Modernism, and Black Masculinities in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Andrew Salkey’s Escape to an Autumn Pavement
No full textFollowing the transnational turn in modernist studies, and building on Stuart Hall’s and Nadia Ellis’s concepts of diaspora as key to understanding Caribbean modernism, this essay examines Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956) and Andrew Salkey’s Escape to an Autumn Pavement (1960) as the first wave of West Indian fiction that traces a black, male consciousness shaped by modernity and migration, one whose lived experiences and feelings of belonging in post-WWII London resist binarized understandings of colonizer and colonized. Selvon’s and Salkey’s fiction represents complex and conflicting senses of black masculinity as mediated by colonialism, bourgeois respectability, and whiteness. Migrant or middle-class, normative or queer, the various modes of black masculinity captured in the novels counter reductive attempts to ascribe one fixed identity, ideological position, or reality to Windrush flaneurs who might prefer walking the streets of London incognito
Postcolonial Impressions in Jonathan Bennett's Verandah People
No full text"Postcolonial Impressions in Jonathan Bennett's Verandah People" by Peter Mathew
Keri Hulme's Holy Family: Postcoloniality and Theology in The Bone People
No full textKeri Hulme's Holy Family: Postcoloniality and Theology in The Bone Peopl
Racial Power and Colorblindness: The "Sad Black Stories" of Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 and Twenty-First Century Black South African Fiction
No full textRacial Power and Colorblindness: The "Sad Black Stories" of Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 and Twenty-First Century Black South African Fictio
Can You Hear Africa Roar? StoryTime and the Digital Publishing Innovations of Ivor Hartmann and Emmanuel Sigauke
No full textCan You Hear Africa Roar? StoryTime and the Digital Publishing Innovations of Ivor Hartmann and Emmanuel Sigauk
Review of The Parchment of Kashmir: History, Society, and Polity
No full textThe Parchment of Kashmir: History, Society, and Polity, edited by Nyla Ali Khan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 264 pages. 
Review of Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature
No full textCritical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature, by Joy A. I. Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai. New York: Routledge, 2013.
 
