Metrolingvisztika, kreol stilizálás és performancia Sam Selvon The Lonely Londoners című regényében

Focusing on Creole styling and performance as metrolingual practice in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, this essay explores the role of culturally embedded vernacular repertoires and resources in the (re)construction of identity and space. On the one hand, styling involves the ongoing negotiation of im/migrant life, and the rewriting of racial sociosemantics and-semiotics in the imperial metropolis. On the other hand, Creole styling crafts a new and rival space that challenges the racial structuration of London. The paper hence shows how Caribbean Creole styling is an embodied and embedded, complex and ordinary, performative and habitual, spectacular and opaque, translingual and transcultural multimodal practice with profound affective, speculative and political implications