Psychological trauma exploration of immigrants on Samuel Selvon’s novels The Lonely Londoners and Moses ascending

Abstract

This dissertation is an opportunity to explore Samuel Selvon’s novels that discuss the psychological experience of Trinidadians, Jamaicans, and people from the Caribbean after immigration that has never been spoken much of. This paper aims to connect Selvon’s creation with his life experience highlighting how racism can change the psychology of men and make them suffer from an existential crisis. It has focused on Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending to examine the purpose of preached racism. However, it has been briefly described how by British amended philosophies on understanding the traumatizing psychological experience of non-European Immigrants on a British land over different periods. This paper focuses on recent times of racism relating to the two novels.