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
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/16402 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Layne, Jhordan |
| Contributors | Coleman, Daniel, English and Cultural Studies |
| Source Sets | McMaster University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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