How Brexit Could Destroy the U.K. Publishing Industry

In his poignant and strikingly insightful novel of 1956, The Lonely Londoners, Samuel Selvon shapes his narrative through the eyes of Caribbean migrants (now commonly referred to as the Windrush generation) upon their arrival to London post-World War II. His Trinidadian characters, having been sold myths of a utopian society—the “motherland”—in which the streets are […] The post How Brexit Could Destroy the U.K. Publishing Industry appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

[ Electric Literature | 2019-09-12 11:00:55 UTC ]

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How Brexit Could Destroy the U.K. Publishing Industry

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