Template:Did you know nominations/Ismith Khan
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:42, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
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Ismith Khan
[edit]- ...that being based in the United States and not London like his contemporaries V. S. Naipaul and Sam Selvon may have contributed to his relative obscurity of Trinidad and Tobago novelist Ismith Khan? Source: "Roydon Salick's recently published Ismith Khan: The Man & His Work, alerts readers, critics and cultural theorists alike to a seminal figure of an earlier generation, who missed the boat which took Mittelholzer, Lamming, Naipaul and Selvon to fame and varying degrees of fortune in England. Salick speculates that the critical neglect Khan has endured to date may be partially attributable to his relocation to America rather than London, which functioned as the English Caribbean's literary capital from the 1930s (with the arrival of Learie Constantine and CLR James) certainly up to the end of the 20th century." ([1])
- ALT1:... that novelist Ismith Khan's obscurity (relative to his contemporaries V. S. Naipaul and Sam Selvon) may reflect the fact that he was not in London, the "literary capital" of the English Caribbean? Source: Same as above
- Reviewed: Jennifer S.H. Brown
Created by Guettarda (talk). Self-nominated at 12:43, 12 April 2019 (UTC).
Article is long enough and in date, and meets all policies. Hook is verified by source. I might suggest shortening it for brevity, something like alt2? Personally I like the unusual point that the "literary capital" of the English Caribbean was actually thousands of miles away and think its worth noting in the hook. Spokoyni (talk) 11:47, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
- ALT2:... that novelist Ismith Khan's relative obscurity may reflect the fact that he was not in London, the "literary capital" of the English Caribbean?