colonial subjects, and encounters on the island among peoples from different
places. Small Island brings together four intersecting stories, including those of Queenie,
a white British woman; Bernard, Queenie’s husband, Gilbert, a black Jamaican migrant;
and Hortense, the wife of Gilbert, an Afro-Caribbean woman who follows her husband to
Britain. Through the space of writing, multiple identities converge. Levy’s work serves as
an act of reconstruction, a belated intervention, which is both sequel…
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