Sam Selvon's Dialectal Style and Fictional Strategy

By: Clement H. Wyke

Sam Selvon, a contemporary writer of major importance, is well known toBritish and Caribbean readers, but his work -- including ten novels --has not attained the prominence it deserves internationally. This studyis a literary analysis of Selvon's use of Trinidad Creole Englishas an important component of his style and method of fictionalcomposition. Wyke follows the development of Selvon's writing fromhis early to his late career, starting with his first novel, ABrighter Sun (1952), continuing with The Lonely Londoners(1956) and the short stories Ways of Sunlight (1957), anddevoting a large part of the book to Selvon's middle and lateryears, focusing on such novels as I Hear Thunder (1963),The Housing Lark (1965), and Those Who Eat theCascadura (1972). He finishes with the last two works ofSelvon's trilogy, Moses Ascending (1975) and MosesMigrating (1983).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774803649
• ISBN13: 9780774803649
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.3"