Abstract
References
- Adams, E. C. (2017). Passive resistance: Hopi responses to Spanish contact and conquest. In European Intruders and Changes in Behaviour and Customs in Africa, America and Asia before 1800 (pp. 41-55). Routledge. Apple, M. W., & Christian-Smith, L. K. (2017). The politics of the textbook. The politics of the textbook (pp. 1-21). Routledge. Bonds, A., & Inwood, J. (2016). Beyond white privilege: Geographies of white supremacy and settler colonialism. Progress in Human Geography, 40(6), 715-733. Crane, D., Kawashima, N., & Kawasaki, K. I. (2016). Culture and globalization theoretical models and emerging trends. In Global culture (pp. 11-36). Routledge. Dutta, M. J. (2015). Decolonizing communication for social change: A culture-centered approach. Communication Theory, 25(2), 123-143. Ellis, A. E. (2015). The imperfect longing: Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners and the dance of doubt. African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, 8(2), 178-189. Escobar, A. (2018). Culture, economics, and politics in Latin American social movements theory and research. In The making of social movements in Latin America (pp. 62-86). Routledge. Johansson, A., & Vinthagen, S. (2016). Dimensions of everyday resistance: An analytical framework. Critical Sociology, 42(3), 417-435. Kapur, R. (2017). Postcolonial erotic disruptions: Legal narratives of culture, sex, and nation in India. In Popular Culture and Law (pp. 61-112). Routledge. Liu, T. (2016). Hybridization in Political Civilization in Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 6(5), 1006-1010. Marshall, E. Z. (2016). ‘Is Who Send We Up In This Place?’Threshold Paralysis and Postponed Arrivals in Sam Selvon’s Lonely Londoners and George Lamming’s The Emigrants. Literary London Journal, 13(1). Mills, C. W. (2017). White supremacy. In The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (pp. 475-487). Routledge. Moss, P. (2017). Power and resistance in early childhood education: From dominant discourse to democratic experimentalism. Journal of Pedagogy, 8(1), 11-32. Ungar, M. (2015). Resilience and culture: The diversity of protective processes and positive adaptation. In Youth resilience and culture (pp. 37-48). Springer, Dordrecht. Wolfe, S. F. (2016). A Happy English Colonial Family in 1950s London?: Immigration, Containment and Transgression in The Lonely Londoners. Culture, Theory and Critique, 57(1), 121-136.
Abstract
This paper investigates the resistance of immigrants to cultural
dominance of London society in The Lonely Londoners a postcolonial novel by Sam
Selvon. The Lonely Londoners (1956) depicts the miserable life of Caribbean
people who migrated in hope to find better conditions of living than their
countries. The paper furnishes a theoretic ground for analyzing the discourse
of the novel related to the way the novel presented an important subject which
is resisting dominant culture throughout events and language that is used by
the novelist. The paradigm of immigrants and their trauma and shock have always
been the spot line of discussion after WWII. Through the colonial history there
was a dominant discourse of Western cultural superiority imposed on colonized,
with the postcolonial era a different discourse emerged through intellectual
presentations such as Fanon, Said, Bhabha ideas and others who enlightened
literary theory and criticism and theorized resistance and cultural identity.
Thus, this paper will analyze critically the discourse of resistance of
Postcolonial people in exile to ascertain their existence and identity.
References
- Adams, E. C. (2017). Passive resistance: Hopi responses to Spanish contact and conquest. In European Intruders and Changes in Behaviour and Customs in Africa, America and Asia before 1800 (pp. 41-55). Routledge. Apple, M. W., & Christian-Smith, L. K. (2017). The politics of the textbook. The politics of the textbook (pp. 1-21). Routledge. Bonds, A., & Inwood, J. (2016). Beyond white privilege: Geographies of white supremacy and settler colonialism. Progress in Human Geography, 40(6), 715-733. Crane, D., Kawashima, N., & Kawasaki, K. I. (2016). Culture and globalization theoretical models and emerging trends. In Global culture (pp. 11-36). Routledge. Dutta, M. J. (2015). Decolonizing communication for social change: A culture-centered approach. Communication Theory, 25(2), 123-143. Ellis, A. E. (2015). The imperfect longing: Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners and the dance of doubt. African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, 8(2), 178-189. Escobar, A. (2018). Culture, economics, and politics in Latin American social movements theory and research. In The making of social movements in Latin America (pp. 62-86). Routledge. Johansson, A., & Vinthagen, S. (2016). Dimensions of everyday resistance: An analytical framework. Critical Sociology, 42(3), 417-435. Kapur, R. (2017). Postcolonial erotic disruptions: Legal narratives of culture, sex, and nation in India. In Popular Culture and Law (pp. 61-112). Routledge. Liu, T. (2016). Hybridization in Political Civilization in Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 6(5), 1006-1010. Marshall, E. Z. (2016). ‘Is Who Send We Up In This Place?’Threshold Paralysis and Postponed Arrivals in Sam Selvon’s Lonely Londoners and George Lamming’s The Emigrants. Literary London Journal, 13(1). Mills, C. W. (2017). White supremacy. In The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (pp. 475-487). Routledge. Moss, P. (2017). Power and resistance in early childhood education: From dominant discourse to democratic experimentalism. Journal of Pedagogy, 8(1), 11-32. Ungar, M. (2015). Resilience and culture: The diversity of protective processes and positive adaptation. In Youth resilience and culture (pp. 37-48). Springer, Dordrecht. Wolfe, S. F. (2016). A Happy English Colonial Family in 1950s London?: Immigration, Containment and Transgression in The Lonely Londoners. Culture, Theory and Critique, 57(1), 121-136.
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| Primary Language | English |
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| Journal Section | Articles |
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| Publication Date | January 14, 2020 |
| Submission Date | July 13, 2019 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2019 |
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