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The Resource The novels of Samuel Selvon : a critical study, Roydon Salick, (eBook)
The novels of Samuel Selvon : a critical study, Roydon Salick, (eBook)
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The item The novels of Samuel Selvon : a critical study, Roydon Salick, (eBook) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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The item The novels of Samuel Selvon : a critical study, Roydon Salick, (eBook) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- The author of such works as A Brighter Sun (1952), The Lonely Londoners (1956), and The Plains of Caroni (1970), West Indian novelist Samuel Selvon is attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention. Nonetheless, criticism of his works has largely been imbalanced, with most scholarship focusing primarily on his language. This book corrects that imbalance by placing Selvon's novels within historical, sociological, and ideological contexts. A new interpretation of Selvon's achievement as a novelist, the volume looks, for the first time, at his works in terms of categories of novels--peasant, m
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 174 pages).
- Note
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions
- Contents
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- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The Peasant Novels; Chapter 1: A Brighter Sun; Chapter 2: Turn Again Tiger; Chapter 3: The Plains of Caroni; Chapter 4: Those Who Eat the Cascadura; Part II: The Middle-Class Novels; Chapter 5: An Island Is a World; Chapter 6: I Hear Thunder; Part III: The Immigrant Novels; Chapter 7: The Housing Lark; Chapter 8: The Lonely Londoners; Chapter 9: Moses Ascending; Chapter 10: Moses Migrating; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
- Label
- The novels of Samuel Selvon : a critical study
- Title
- The novels of Samuel Selvon
- Title remainder
- a critical study
- Statement of responsibility
- Roydon Salick
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The author of such works as A Brighter Sun (1952), The Lonely Londoners (1956), and The Plains of Caroni (1970), West Indian novelist Samuel Selvon is attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention. Nonetheless, criticism of his works has largely been imbalanced, with most scholarship focusing primarily on his language. This book corrects that imbalance by placing Selvon's novels within historical, sociological, and ideological contexts. A new interpretation of Selvon's achievement as a novelist, the volume looks, for the first time, at his works in terms of categories of novels--peasant, m
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Characteristic
- unknown
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Salick, Roydon
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Series statement
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- eBooks from EBSCOhost
- Contributions to the study of world literature,
- Series volume
- no. 102
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Selvon, Samuel
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Caribbean Area
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Label
- The novels of Samuel Selvon : a critical study, Roydon Salick, (eBook)
- Note
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The Peasant Novels; Chapter 1: A Brighter Sun; Chapter 2: Turn Again Tiger; Chapter 3: The Plains of Caroni; Chapter 4: Those Who Eat the Cascadura; Part II: The Middle-Class Novels; Chapter 5: An Island Is a World; Chapter 6: I Hear Thunder; Part III: The Immigrant Novels; Chapter 7: The Housing Lark; Chapter 8: The Lonely Londoners; Chapter 9: Moses Ascending; Chapter 10: Moses Migrating; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
- Control code
- 943636
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 174 pages).
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) tsl-ebsco24438
- (OCoLC)50321186
- Label
- The novels of Samuel Selvon : a critical study, Roydon Salick, (eBook)
- Note
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The Peasant Novels; Chapter 1: A Brighter Sun; Chapter 2: Turn Again Tiger; Chapter 3: The Plains of Caroni; Chapter 4: Those Who Eat the Cascadura; Part II: The Middle-Class Novels; Chapter 5: An Island Is a World; Chapter 6: I Hear Thunder; Part III: The Immigrant Novels; Chapter 7: The Housing Lark; Chapter 8: The Lonely Londoners; Chapter 9: Moses Ascending; Chapter 10: Moses Migrating; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
- Control code
- 943636
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 174 pages).
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) tsl-ebsco24438
- (OCoLC)50321186
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