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Samuel Selvon
Samuel Selvon 0000000082184421 Trinidad-born author Samuel Selvon (1923-1994) is known for his groundbreaking use of “nation language” in his 1956 novel, The Lonely Londoners. He received two Guggenh...
From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender
From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender Curdella Forbes 9789766401719 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies...
The Lonely Londoners
The Lonely Londoners Samuel Selvon 9781350496576 Fiction Methuen Drama Bloomsbury Press “London will do for you for now… And I will do for London.” London, 1956. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry ...
Those Who Eat the Cascadura
Those Who Eat the Cascadura Samuel Selvon 9781774150757 Fiction Mawenzi House Mawenzi House “I see trouble. Plenty trouble.” The village obeahman Manko foresees trouble when an Englishman Garry Johns...
An Island Is a World
An Island Is a World Samuel Selvon 9781774150047 Fiction Mawenzi House Mawenzi House A novel of a personal and intellectual quest in postwar Trinidad. In the post-war Caribbean colony, as an earlie...
Ways of Sunlight
Ways of Sunlight Samuel Selvon 9780241654538 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House ‘A delightful book, a pleasure to read and reflect over afterwards … for humour, sprightliness and downright...
The Housing Lark
The Housing Lark Samuel Selvon 9780143133964 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House The humorous yet poignant novel of West Indian migrant life in London that adds an iconic voice to the growi...
Trinidad Noir: The Classics (Akashic Noir)
Trinidad Noir: The Classics (Akashic Noir) Earl Lovelace and Robert Antoni 9781617754357 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Classic stories by: C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, Samuel Selvon, Eric Roach,...