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Black London: The politics of representation in Sam Selvon's the lonely Londoners

Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners has become one of the key literary texts in the representation of the Windrush generation of immigrants from the Caribbean to Britain in the 1950s. The novel can be seen as a textual space that is concerned with recording and articulating the specific experiences of a marginalised and diasporic group of individuals encountering the colonial 'centre' of London. However, in recording this experience in the form of a novel, certain ambivalences of representation are reproduced that problematise the construction of a collective black immigrant identity. In this article, I will explore some of these ambivalences and ambiguities, focusing on the novel's production of a politics of representation that engages with issues of race, class and gender.