Prose Context and Theory
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- Created on: 10-03-20 18:22
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- Prose Context and Theory
- Lonely Londoners
- Published in 1956, after the British Nationality Act (1948)
- Citizenship of Britain and it colonies
- El Dorado myth - mother country reject its colonies
- Citizenship of Britain and it colonies
- Post Modernism (Mixing of different artistic culture) relies on Selvon's use of creole language
- Eposodic structure mirrors that of the immigrant's experiences
- Large number of different characters and locations, containing sub-plots
- No palpable forward motion or driving force
- Lack of traditional plot line reflects rejection of traditional and literary conventions
- Colour bar, in which black people are denied the same opportunities as others
- Difficulty to find work and sustain livelihood
- Job centre
- Immigration meant a hybridisation of culture
- Edward Said's Orientalism - Western style for dominating the orient
- Wind-rush generation arriving in UK from Caribbean
- Waterloo station
- Published in 1956, after the British Nationality Act (1948)
- Heart of Darkness
- Height of Modern Imperial Movement
- Conrad's father exiled to Siberia on suspicion of conspiring against government
- Conrad was suspected of being gay
- Kurtz's feminine attributes
- World's 'dark places' under European control
- Ivory trade mirrors that of colonial greed
- Modernist literature
- Characteristics: Intentional distortion of shapes, illusion, interest of primitive cultures
- Purposeful degradation of "black shapes"
- Interest in cannibals
- Illusions of Kurtz
- Purposeful degradation of "black shapes"
- Characteristics: Intentional distortion of shapes, illusion, interest of primitive cultures
- Lonely Londoners
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