London's Burning: Structuralist Readings of the Urban Inferno in the 1950's British Literature of Multi-culturalism

London's Burning: Structuralist Readings of the Urban Inferno in the 1950's British Literature of Multi-culturalism

This article examines a literary triangle treating a modern re-imagining of the Dantean Inferno in Caribbean migrant experience. Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners advanced a stylistic and intellectual revolution in post-World War II British literature, inspiring Colin MacInnes’ Absolute Beginners in...

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Main Author: Tadd Graham Fernée
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Bulgarian University 2020-12-01
Series:English Studies at NBU
Subjects:
windrush generation
post-colonial literature
sam selvon
ian macinnes
jean rhys
structuralism
black history
gender
multi-culturalism
british literature
dante
capitalism
caribbean literature
cultural studies
stuart hall
Online Access:https://esnbu.org/data/files/2020/esnbu.20.2.6.pdf

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