ABSTRACT
The recurring figure of the Caribbean migrant and the many echoes of the Windrush era in his work have to be linked to the particular significance of the departure from the Caribbean: a moment that is invariably traumatic in his writing and described in his first novel as “a flight from beauty”. The newcomers would then embark on a journey that has become the canonical Windrush generation narrative and has been summed up by Horace Ove in the credits of his film Pressure. The vignettes drawn by Horace Ove that open the film follow a couple from the shores of a Caribbean island to England and record their subsequent fortune in Britain. The TV film was an attempt to reach a broader audience and transmit an image of the Windrush generation and their children that would not focus solely on race riots or be a “pseudo-documentary”.
