The Pleasures of ExileUniversity of Michigan Press, 1992 - 232 sidor In The Pleasures of Exile, as in his other works, George Lamming embraces the intricate issues of colonization and decolonization with a canny combination of playfulness and seriousness, irony and commitment. " It] is a reciprocal process," Lamming observes, "to be a colonial is to be a man in a certain relation; and this relation is an example of exile." Through a series of interrelated essays, The Pleasures of Exile explores the cultural politics and relationships created in the crucible of colonization. Drawing on Shakespeare's The Tempest and C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins, as well as his own fiction and poetry, Lamming deftly locates the reader in a specific intellectual and cultural domain while conjuring a rich and varied spectrum of physical, intellectual, psychological, and cultural responses to colonialism. "My subject," he writes, "is the migration of the West Indian writer, as colonial and exile, from his native kingdom, once inhabited by Caliban, to the tempestuous island of Prospero's and his language. This book is a report on one man's way of seeing." |
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... Africa , and the United States . They have relevance for students of Caribbean literature and Black cultural studies everywhere and illuminate contemporary literary and philosophical debates around minority discourse and post- colonial ...
... Africa , and the United States . They have relevance for students of Caribbean literature and Black cultural studies everywhere and illuminate contemporary literary and philosophical debates around minority discourse and post- colonial ...
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... African - Caribbean identity on behalf of the whole Ca- ribbean . In West Africa and in the United States , the authorial persona is the traveling colonial who measures the meaning of his condition in alternative contexts for self ...
... African - Caribbean identity on behalf of the whole Ca- ribbean . In West Africa and in the United States , the authorial persona is the traveling colonial who measures the meaning of his condition in alternative contexts for self ...
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... Africa , the Americas , and Europe , geographically and culturally , and antici- pates many of the arguments regarding the Barthian Deep Me , The Written Me , The Subaltern and Postcolonial Subject in contempo- rary postcolonial ...
... Africa , the Americas , and Europe , geographically and culturally , and antici- pates many of the arguments regarding the Barthian Deep Me , The Written Me , The Subaltern and Postcolonial Subject in contempo- rary postcolonial ...
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... African Appropriations of The Tempest , " Rob Nixon notes the double incongruity of Caribbean and African intel- lectuals ' use of a canonical European text like The Tempest , " given Shakespeare's distinctive position as a measure of ...
... African Appropriations of The Tempest , " Rob Nixon notes the double incongruity of Caribbean and African intel- lectuals ' use of a canonical European text like The Tempest , " given Shakespeare's distinctive position as a measure of ...
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... African slave in James's The Black Jacobins marks the difference between a Eu- ropean and a Caribbean mythology . Rob Nixon concludes that the value of The Tempest for Caribbean and African intellectuals " faded once the plot ran out ...
... African slave in James's The Black Jacobins marks the difference between a Eu- ropean and a Caribbean mythology . Rob Nixon concludes that the value of The Tempest for Caribbean and African intellectuals " faded once the plot ran out ...
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In the Beginning | 14 |
The Occasion for Speaking | 23 |
Evidence and Example | 51 |
A Way of Seeing | 56 |
Conflict and Illusion | 86 |
A Monster A Child A Slave | 95 |
Caliban Orders History | 118 |
Ishmael at Home | 151 |
The African Presence | 160 |
Journey to an Explanation | 211 |
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Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy Paget Henry Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2000 |