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Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners (1956) is a tragicomic depiction of predominantly male West Indian immigrants in the 1950s who have come to London for employment only to find themselves struggling for jobs and lodging. In order to better understand their ambivalent relationship with the city of London, this essay focuses on the figure of the black flâneur, broadening and complicating the traditional (white) flâneur conceptualized by Baudelaire and Benjamin. A dandy and the flâneur, Galahad in The Lonely Londoners revels in strolling, while observing kaleidoscopic spectacles of the metropolis and looking for white women for one-night stands. Although he feels triumphant and empowered on the street, his flânerie demonstrates the anxiety and the envy of black men as byproducts of racial exclusivity. The urban exploration of black men in The Lonely Londoners is conspicuously masculine and even predatory, entailing verbal aggression against white women. Their predatory masculinity is a self-defensive response to the symbolic castration that racism and colonialism have inflicted upon them. Thus, black men's flânerie in The Lonely Londoners brings to the fore their ambivalent position in London; they become observers of the metropolis while being observed as a spectacle of mid-twentieth century London as well as womanizers who have been racially castrated.
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Ball, John Clement / 2004 / Imagining London: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis / U of Toronto P
Barratt, Harold / 1988 / From Colony to Colony: Selvon's Expatriate West Indians, in Critical Perspectives on Sam Selvon / Three Continents P :250~259
Baudelaire, Charles / 1995 / The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays / Phaidon :1~41
Benjamin, Walter / 1983 / Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism / Verso
Dawson, Ashley / 2007 / ‘In the Big City the Sex Life Gone Wild': Migration, Gender, and Identity in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, in Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain / U of Michigan P :27~48
Barratt, Harold / 1988 / From Colony to Colony: Selvon's Expatriate West Indians, in Critical Perspectives on Sam Selvon / Three Continents P :250~259
Baudelaire, Charles / 1995 / The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays / Phaidon :1~41
Benjamin, Walter / 1983 / Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism / Verso
Dawson, Ashley / 2007 / ‘In the Big City the Sex Life Gone Wild': Migration, Gender, and Identity in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, in Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain / U of Michigan P :27~48
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