Critical Perspectives on Sam Selvon

A major study of this important and prolific Trinidadian writer, whose many works have come to speak for Caribbean exiles living in “Mother England.” The collection includes background essays, interviews with Selvon, and critical assessments of his ten novels and collected short stories. An extensive bibliography and notes on the contributors are included.

Selvon has devoted his books to Creolized people, whether they call Port-of-Spain or Portobello Road home. This Critical Perspectives volume examines his preoccupation with not only the existential and metaphysical—and sometimes comical—crises of educated Trinidadians in exile, but also Trinidad’s East Indian peasantry and urban tricksters.