This free course concentrates on Sam Selvon's twentieth-century novel, The Lonely Londoners. It considers the depiction of migration in the text as well as Selvon's treatment of memory as a vital part of the migrant's experience.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- Background
- Leaving home
- Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners
- Language and form in The Lonely Londoners
- Characterisation, illusion and identity in The Lonely Londoners
- Representations of women in The Lonely Londoners
- Style and narrative techniques: London in summer
- Memory in The Lonely Londoners: Moses and Galahad
- Conclusion
- References
- Further reading
- Acknowledgements
