원드러쉬 세대화, 집, 의 정치학-샘 셀본의 『모세 출세하다』와 『모세 이주이다』 = The Windrush Generation and the politics of Home: sam Selvon`s Moses Ascending and Moses Migrating

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Responding to Kureishi`s call for ``a fresh way of seeing Britain,`` this essay analyzes the reconceptualization of home(land) by the Windrush generation in Sam selvon`s Moses Aseending (1975) and Moses Migrating (1983). Moses, narrator and protagonist both novels, is a whitewashed black immigrant from Trinidad, who has come to London in the 1950s like many other West Indian immigrants Known as the windrush generation. Moses Ascending begins as a success story of a black immigrant who becomes a landiord of a dilapidated London house, ensconces himself in the highest fiat, and hires a white man Friday as a servant. As the story unfolds, however, Moses`s house becomes a site where hierarchical binaries of white vs. black, master vs. servant, landlord vs. tenant, and native vs. immigrant are collapsed through a series of ``comic reversals.`` The ongoing reorganization of Moses` s house questions the racist logic behind post-1962 immigration policies and racial attacks on black immigrants. Furthermore, in Moses Migrating set in Ttinidad during the Carnical season Selvon satirizes Moses`s misled identification with the `mother country` and mocks the idea of Keeping Britain white,Read together, Moses Ascending and Moses Migrating challenge the narrow and inaccurate definition of Britain as white people`s home(land).