Interrogating Space for Black Britishers- A Reading of Andrea Levy’s Every Light in the House Burnin’ and Fruit of the Lemon

Abstract

Levy displays a literary commitment to negotiate rights for Black in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s. However, the Windrush writers in the earlier decades articulated the Caribbean consciousness in their writings. Levy never failed to demonstrate her profound interest in exploring Britain in her own way. Hence her motivation to assert Britishness through her fiction writing is analyzed. Levy in her select novels showcases the inequalities faced by the Blacks in the English nation and also fails not to negotiate the right place for them in the transnational framework. Here an attempt is made to highlight the changeover in the articulation of Caribbean consciousness in the works of Levy.