Migrant Modernism: Postwar London and the West Indian Novel

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. At the Scene of the Time: Postwar London 14 2. “Child of Ferment”: Edgar Mittelholzer’s Contrary Tradition 42 3. Engaging the Reader: The Difficulties of George Lamming 73 4. A Commoner Cosmopolitanism: Sam Selvon’s Literary Forms 103 5. The Lyrical Enchantments of Roger Mais 134 Coda: Kamau Brathwaite, Wilson Harris, and V. S. Naipaul’s Caribbean Voice 169 Notes 185 Bibliography 215 Index 235 ...