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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... British Library . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Lamming , George , 1927– The pleasures of exile / by George Lamming . p . cm . ( Ann Arbor paperbacks ) ISBN 0-472-09466-1 ( alk . paper ) . — ISBN 0-472-06466-5 ...
... British Library . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Lamming , George , 1927– The pleasures of exile / by George Lamming . p . cm . ( Ann Arbor paperbacks ) ISBN 0-472-09466-1 ( alk . paper ) . — ISBN 0-472-06466-5 ...
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... British cultural institutions from Shakespeare to the Insti- tute of Contemporary Arts , the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , the Times Literary Supplement , and the Spectator . He names an alternative hierarchy of values that ...
... British cultural institutions from Shakespeare to the Insti- tute of Contemporary Arts , the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , the Times Literary Supplement , and the Spectator . He names an alternative hierarchy of values that ...
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... British intellectuals and institutions . In " What the Twilight Says : An Overture , " Derek Walcott writes about " the learning of looking " that restores the subject colonial writer to the original space of his birth and his personal ...
... British intellectuals and institutions . In " What the Twilight Says : An Overture , " Derek Walcott writes about " the learning of looking " that restores the subject colonial writer to the original space of his birth and his personal ...
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... British Caribbean " ( 9 ) . Though the narrator identifies himself as a descendant of both Prospero and Caliban , his sympathetic identification is with Caliban in the oppositional dis- course that follows . Lamming wraps himself in the ...
... British Caribbean " ( 9 ) . Though the narrator identifies himself as a descendant of both Prospero and Caliban , his sympathetic identification is with Caliban in the oppositional dis- course that follows . Lamming wraps himself in the ...
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... British colonies of the Caribbean complement Fanon's in Black Skin , White Masks , Lamming stresses the difference between Lan- guage as an agent of colonization and that Language rechristened as the product of Caribbean endeavor ...
... British colonies of the Caribbean complement Fanon's in Black Skin , White Masks , Lamming stresses the difference between Lan- guage as an agent of colonization and that Language rechristened as the product of Caribbean endeavor ...
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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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