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'' The Lonely Londoners '', as with most of his later work, focuses on the immigration of West Indians to Britain in the 1950's/60's, and the cultural differences which are often subtle and implicit to the dying Empire's fantasy of a "white nation". Selvon also illustrates the panoply of different "cities" that are lived in London, as with any major city, due to class and racial boundaries. In many ways, his books are the precursors to works such as '' White Teeth '' by Zadie Smith and '' The Buddha Of Suburbia '' by Hanif Kureishi .


CRITICISM


Critical works on Selvon include:

  • Clement Wyck , ''Sam Selvon's dialectal style and fictional strategy'' (1991).

  • Austin Clarke , ''Passage back home: a personal reminiscence of Samuel Selvon'' (1994).

  • Mark S. Looker , ''Atlantic Passages: history, community, and language in the fiction of Sam Selvon'' (1996).

  • Roydon Salick , ''The Novels of Samuel Selvon'' (2001).



EXTERNAL LINKS


  • [http://www.tsarbooks.com/ TSAR Publications]