From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming And the Cultural Performance of Gender

This book is the first comprehensive treatment of gender in the fiction of Samuel Selvon and George Lamming, two West Indian writers who are rarely analysed together. It demystifies discourses of creolization and nationalism, showing that these have masked complexities of gender in West Indian society, and that the maskings are in turn part of a larger masking of neo-colonial threads within the nationalist project.

Situating Selvon’s and Lamming’s work within the wider field of West Indian s...