ture due to poverty. In contrast, the rise of a primarily white middle-class basically undermined anything that was produced or created by natives on native soil. Lamming (41) also discusses the murder of Roger Mais and the feelings of Vic Reid in its aftermath, ôWhether for a year or for good, Reid needed to get out.ö Such political unrest caused many writers to emigrate to the west.
A social force the prompted many writers to emigrate to the west from the West Indies is the nature of the audience for writers. West Indian writers, according to Lamming, ôcanÆt tell where, precisely, the reader isàHis only certain knowled
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