Hybridization in Economic Activities in Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending

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10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.133How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Samuel Selvon; The Lonely Londoners; Moses Ascending; hybridization

Abstract

Samuel Selvon (1923-1994) is a pioneer in Caribbean literature. His Moses trilogy is very representative because of his preoccupation with issues of culture and identity. This paper attempts to employ Homi Bhabha’s theory of hybridity to illustrate the Creoles’ struggle against colonization and the construction of economic hybridity. From the perspective of economic, The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending deal with the fractured and disjointed economic activities on the Londoners and Moses’ economic life, covering from general economic life to personal economic behavior. The hybridization of economic activities helps Creoles walk out of the tough period and be able to support themselves. It is an effective way for them to be free from colonization economically.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Liu Tingxuan
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TI  - Hybridization in Economic Activities in Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2018)
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SN  - 2352-5398
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