Samuel Selvon Essays
Integration in The Lonely Londoners College
The Lonely Londoners
It have some men in this world, they don’t do nothing at all, and you feel that they would dead from starvation, but day after day you meeting them and they looking hale, they laughing and they talking as if they have a million dollars, and in...
Moses and Sir Galahad: Deciphering Biblical and Arthurian Allusions in The Lonely Londoners College
The Lonely Londoners
In The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon, Moses and Henry Oliver fight to overcome the discrimination they suffer due to prejudice in London towards immigrants. As insidious as the American South’s notoriously overt racism, London’s covert racism...
A Study of Space in "Small Island" and "The Lonely Londoners" College
The Lonely Londoners
As a human there are certain rights we believe we have. It is not uncommon for one group to believe themselves superior to another, or for each group to believe they have certain rights and the other group to disagree. This was the case when large...
Content and Form in Selvon's The Lonely Londoners: Representing Cultural Contact, Mixing, and Creolization College
The Lonely Londoners
Selvon's 'The Lonely Londoners' not only explores processes of cultural contact, but is in itself the product of and inspiration for future mixing of cultures: it is a novel which ‘forged a shift in perspective which would not only change the way...
