In the past few years much theoretical debate has explored several cultural issue sin the Anglophone Caribbean, focusing on the central experience of colonialism as well as on the contemporary postcolonial condition and the possible formation of neo-colonial configurations. Some of the constituent traits of the Caribbean experience are dealt with in this study, such as the relationship between the Caribbean and Great Britain from a cultural and literary perspective in the twentieth century, multiculturalism and ethnicity, the interplay of orality and literature and an investigation of linguistic issues, in particular the creolization of the English language under world influences. Different strands are brought together in the analysis of Sam Selvon's London trilogy-The lonely Londoners, Moses Ascending and Moses migrating, considering questions of identity for ex-colonials in the crucial years between the end of World War II and the 1980s in Britain, relationships between European versus African and Indian cultural heritage, clash of cultures as represented via language, ideas of national identity as an imaginative process also reflecting dynamics of power inside society.
