Of Selvon and Sentimentality: Diasporic Rememberings

This essay serves as an introduction to the special issue on Samuel Selvon. It offers reflections on what it means to remember Selvon today one hundred years after his birth in 1923 and after his centenary in 2023. It also situates the discussions that make up the special issue in relation to each other and in relation to the wider critical field of scholarship on Selvon’s work.

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Anthurium A Caribbean Studies Journal
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2025-01-01
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https://doi.org/10.33596/anth.538
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Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
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Of Selvon and Sentimentality: Diasporic Rememberings

Ronald Cummings
Anthurium A Caribbean Studies Journal
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
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Of Selvon and Sentimentality: Diasporic Rememberings

Ronald Cummings
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Abstract

This essay serves as an introduction to the special issue on Samuel Selvon. It offers reflections on what it means to remember Selvon today one hundred years after his birth in 1923 and after his centenary in 2023. It also situates the discussions that make up the special issue in relation to each other and in relation to the wider critical field of scholarship on Selvon’s work.

Anthurium A Caribbean Studies JournalVol. 20(1)
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (US)
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Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
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