Texturing the Word. 40 years of Caribbean writing in Britain - ACE438.6

Caption: "Part Three. Language & Orality." Street demonstration. Commentary talks about Selvon’s striving for authenticity. He says he has never lost his birthright; he was never "Indianised" in Trindad, a "creolised" society. Street demonstration. Commentary on Heath’s authenticity and his belief that language is an important component of culture. Heath talks about the relative importance of language and other aspects of cultural affinity. Street demonstration. Commentary talks about Johnson’s work being influenced by reggae deejays. He talks about his college paper on Jamaican rebel music, and of some of the performers whose work and politics he admired. Street market; drinkers in a pub. VO Mark Matthew reading "I am sitting with Pilot in a Notting Hill Gate cider bar…", an early experience of London dominated by thoughts of Guyana. Grace Nichols on using her experience of exile in her writing