Mr Loverman: A Novel based on Exploring the Caribbean Community and a Journey from Self-denial to Acceptance
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Black British Literature, Caribbean community, Homosexuality, Self-denial.Abstract
Black British literature came to the force in the 1970s and was described as the writing of authors based in Britain but from different origins in former British colonies in Africa, Asia,and the Caribbean. It talked about alienation, migration, and discrimination against people of various origins. In her novel Mr. Loverman (2013), Bernardine Evaristo talks about Black British Literature and Black British characters, Evaristo explores the experiences of Britain’s older Caribbean community through their cultural myths, and fallacies, it is about the fear that people have about the consequences they will have to face if they try to be outspoken, or they try to be themselves. Evaristo talks about modern Britain in her works. Barrington Jedidiah Walker is a self-educated, less confident man of 74, who is truly in love but not with his wife,but with his gay lover, Morris. It is a story of their journey from self-denial to acceptance.
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Evaristo, Bernardine. Mr Loverman and the Men in Black British Fiction: The Representation of Black Men in Black British Fiction. Diss.
Goldsmiths, University of London, 2013. Nenonen,Sara. "“I am a Barrysexual!”–An analysis of queer identity in Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr Loverman." (2023). von Rosenberg, Ingrid, and Bernadine Evaristo. "Interview with Poet-Novelist Bernadine
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