Sunday Bamisile (Faculdade de Letras Universidade de Lisboa)
This essay examines the nature and complexity of problems facing black Caribbeans in England as portrayed in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoner and C.L.R James’s Letter from England. Using George Eric Lamming’s - The Pleasure of Exile and Frantz Fanon’s - Black Skin, White Masks for our theoretical foundation, we shall focus on the representation of blacks and their inter-relationship with white characters in the two literary texts. Special emphasise will be paid to the question of displacement, dilemma of black and its effects on the female characters. We concluded that the black Caribbeans analysed in these novels are lonely and are considered as second class citizens and due to the fact that they are far away from the pleasure, emotional support and psychological freedom of home.
Sunday Adetunji Bamisile is a doctoral candidate of Literary and Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon, Lisbon-Portugal. He holds a B.A. Hons.in Afro and Luso-Brazilian Literatures from Obafemi Awolowo University, ife Nigeria, a Postgraduate Higher Diploma in Teaching of Portuguese as a Foreign Language from Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Porto, and a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature from Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa. His doctoral research-in-progress focuses on “The Question of Gender and Creativity in Contemporary African Literature and African Literature in Diaspora.” He has published articles on Postcolonial, Afro and Luso–Brazilian Literatures and Feminism. Bamisile is a critic and literary theorist and a staunch follower of feminist ideology. His other area of interest includes Postcolonial Studies, Portuguese, Brazilian, African and Comparative literatures.
Sunday Adetunji Bamisile is a doctoral candidate of Literary and Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon, Lisbon-Portugal. He holds a B.A. Hons.in Afro and Luso-Brazilian Literatures from Obafemi Awolowo University, ife Nigeria, a Postgraduate Higher Diploma in Teaching of Portuguese as a Foreign Language from Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Porto, and a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature from Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa. His doctoral research-in-progress focuses on “The Question of Gender and Creativity in Contemporary African Literature and African Literature in Diaspora.” He has published articles on Postcolonial, Afro and Luso–Brazilian Literatures and Feminism. Bamisile is a critic and literary theorist and a staunch follower of feminist ideology. His other area of interest includes Postcolonial Studies, Portuguese, Brazilian, African and Comparative literatures.
