The Search for El Dorado is the Search for Masculinity: Critiquing Afro-Caribbean Male Sexuality in Samuel Selvon’s <i>The Lonely Londoners</i>

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The Search for El Dorado is the Search for Masculinity: Critiquing Afro-Caribbean Male Sexuality in Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners. (2018). Tout Moun Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies, 4(2). https://journals.sta.uwi.edu/ojs/index.php/toutmoun/article/view/8739

Abstract

Male sexuality is openly privileged and its many tenets socially endorsed, as depicted in The Lonely Londoners male characters’ adherence to the phallus as a symbol of power over women (Brittan 1989). Androcentrism and sexism seemingly characterize the resultant social and cultural constructs of masculinities, and multiple sexual conquests and the notion of reputation become a collective marker of Caribbean male immigrants across nationalities, binding West Indian men to overcome differences in geography, language and politics.