“You Have to Melt It to Hear the Talk”: Transnationalism, Creole Stylization and Aurality in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners
Whereas in the traditional ‘English novel’ the space of the nation is indexed by regionally unmarked, neutral, ‘standard’ English (cf. Bleak House), in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956) the creation of a transnational London relies on an accented, regionally and socially marked creole vernacu...
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Bucharest University Press
2014-06-01
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| Series: | University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/DorottyaMozes.pdf |