1. At the Scene of the Time: Postwar London
2. “Child of Ferment”: Edgar Mittelholzer's Contrary Tradition
3. Engaging the Reader: The Difficulties of George Lamming
4. A Commoner Cosmopolitanism: Sam Selvon's Literary Forms
5. The Lyrical Enchantments of Roger Mais
Coda: Kamau Brathwaite, Wilson Harris, and V. S. Naipaul's Caribbean Voice