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1	OUR WORDS ARE BRICK AND MORTAR: MASCULINE RECONSTRUCTIONS OF HOME AND COMMUNITY IN WINDRUSH ERA WEST INDIAN MIGRANT LITERATURE Layne, Jhordan 11 1900 (has links) McMaster University MASTER OF ARTS (2014) Hamilton, Ontario (English) TITLE: Our Words are Brick and Mortar: Masculine Reconstructions of Home in Windrush Era West Indian Migrant Literature AUTHOR: Jhordan Layne, B.A. (Western University) SUPERVISOR: Professor Daniel Coleman NUMBER OF PAGES: v, 110 / This thesis examines the concept of home in West Indian migrant literature of the Windrush Era. The analysis focuses on home as a series of reference points which construct inclusions and exclusions in a given society. I postulate that the non-white, male West Indian migrant’s idea of home endures a double disruption (in the shift from the colonial patriarchal paradigm within the West Indies and in the act of migration to England) which forces him to reconstruct a notion of home within England. In the investigation, I discover that West Indian men must learn to adapt to the concomitant societal pressures of racism, imperialism, colonialism and nationalism in England, in order to build a sense of home which can withstand such pressures. In the process of this investigation, I also discover that use of the West Indian language and the pursuit of male community building is indispensable to creating new forms of masculinity which can exist in a diasporic community without necessarily reaffirming the previous colonial patriarchal paradigm. / Thesis / Master of English
2	Vyobrazení Windrush generace v díle Malý Ostrov od Andrey Levy a Osamělí Londýňané od Samuela Selvona / The portrayal of the Windrush generation in Andrea Levy's Small Island and Samuel Selvon's The Lonely Londoners Hemžalová, Simona January 2021 (has links) The diploma thesis is concerned with the portrayal of the Windrush generation, the first wave of immigrants coming to Britain from its former colonies, in Andrea Levy's Small Island (2004) and Samuel Selvon's The Lonely Londoners (1956). The theoretical part of the thesis outlines the socio-historical and cultural overview of the rising immigration to Britain after the Second World War, which according to the selected secondary sources contributed to the increase of racism and discrimination, namely against people of Caribbean origin. The thesis further presents principal concepts of postcolonial and Anglophone Caribbean literature and examines both authors' personal experience with immigration as well as the idiosyncratic features of their writing. These are essential for understanding the literary works of the selected authors and the subsequent interpretation of their literary depiction of the immigrant experience. The practical part of the thesis relies on the theoretical part and focuses on the comparison of the two novels, their presentation and view of the so-called Windrush generation with specific attention paid to their form and content. Simultaneously, the work examines how the literary depictions of the immigrant experience correspond to the theory presented. Moreover, the thesis...
3	Dance and Identity Politics in Caribbean Literature: Culture, Community, and Commemoration Tressler, Gretchen E. 03 June 2011 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Dance appears often in Anglophone Caribbean literature, usually when a character chooses to celebrate and emphasize her/his freedom from the physical, emotional, and societal constraints that normally keep the body in check. This study examines how a character's political consciousness often emerges in chorus with aesthetic bodily movement and analyzes the symbolic force and political significance of Caribbean dance--both celebratory (as in Carnival) and defensive (as in warrior dances). Furthermore, this study observes how the weight of Western views on dance influences Caribbean transmutations and translations of cultural behavior, ritual acts, and spontaneous movement. The novels studied include Samuel Selvon's "The Lonely Londoners" (1956), Earl Lovelace's "The Dragon Can't Dance" (1979), Paule Marshall's "Praisesong for the Widow" (1983), and Marie-Elena John's "Unburnable" (2006). Caribbean Literature Anglophone Dance Identity Culture Community Ritual Performance Political consciousness Postcolonial Carnival Ekphrasis Afro-Caribbean Earl Lovelace Paule Marshall Marie-Elena John Samuel Selvon Selvon, Samuel. -- Lonely Londoners John, Marie-Elena. -- Unburnable

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