Language is worth a thousand pounds a word Lecercle, Jean-Jacques
Angles (Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur),
11/2015, Letnik:
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This paper studies the following axiom: ‘brevity is the soul of wit’ through a series of 11 theses and 16 propositions. It takes as proof an extract from Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956). The ...author suggests that if brevity is the source of wit thanks to a process of interpellation, this opens the way to a novel philosophy of language, one which centers on the linguistic agon, in which the primary function of language is not to communicate information but to exert a force that interpellates subjects in the respective positions in which they find themselves.
Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners has drawn much critical attention for its language, its mix of Standard English and dialect. It has also drawn some criticism for its representation of sexuality. ...This essay draws attention to the text’s particular strategy for the emergence and clarification of meanings on both linguistic and libidinal registers.
In this hitherto unpublished wide-ranging and reflective interview from 1982 on the relationships between language, literature and political change, C. L. R. James examines what is specific to the ...Caribbean genus of imaginative writing in English. And he draws insightful comparisons between it and the rhetorical power embodied in Martin Luther King's great speech, `I have a dream'. As we go to press, the fortieth anniversary of King's death is being commemorated.
Sam Selvon (1923-1994) Thorpe, Michael
World literature today,
01/1995, Letnik:
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Trinidadian-born author Sam Selvon avoided the tendency to dwell on ethnic self-examination and identification. He considered this to be an unwarranted and opportunistic form of racial consciousness. ...Thus, he did not preoccupy himself with describing Indian ritual and customs in his works. He was a liberal thinker. The author lived in both the UK and Canada before he died in Apr. 1994 at the age of 75.
Dickinson offers a study of Sam Selvon's trilogy of Moses novels as an example of masquerade, the character standing for author and nation. It is in reading the carnivalesque qualities of "Moses ...Ascending" (1975) that one uncovers ethnic masquerade in Selvon's creolization of culture. Dickinson is particularly interested in code-shifting uses of language in the creation of an authentic Trinidadian self.
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