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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... gift of Language meant not English , in particu- lar , but speech and a concept as a way , a method , a necessary avenue towards areas of the self which could not be reached in any other way . Caliban's future . . . the FOREWORD XV.
... gift of Language meant not English , in particu- lar , but speech and a concept as a way , a method , a necessary avenue towards areas of the self which could not be reached in any other way . Caliban's future . . . the FOREWORD XV.
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... English cricket transforms a ritual of colonial dominance into a ritual of resistance and national pride . 1o Within the contradictory legacies of colonialism , genius subverts and transforms the structures that were meant to confine it ...
... English cricket transforms a ritual of colonial dominance into a ritual of resistance and national pride . 1o Within the contradictory legacies of colonialism , genius subverts and transforms the structures that were meant to confine it ...
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... English Nation ( 1598-1600 ) and Shakespeare's The Tempest are identified by Lamming as comple- mentary pre - texts that reveal the centuries - old process by which Europe laid the foundations of its colonizing mission on the fictions ...
... English Nation ( 1598-1600 ) and Shakespeare's The Tempest are identified by Lamming as comple- mentary pre - texts that reveal the centuries - old process by which Europe laid the foundations of its colonizing mission on the fictions ...
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... English text by offering his own unorthodox evaluation of the thought systems , values , and ideals in The Tempest as evidence of a pervasive decadence and corruption in colonialism from its inception . Using The Tempest to clarify his ...
... English text by offering his own unorthodox evaluation of the thought systems , values , and ideals in The Tempest as evidence of a pervasive decadence and corruption in colonialism from its inception . Using The Tempest to clarify his ...
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... English and Caribbean reviewers that grounds the discourse in a Caribbean social , political , economic , and emotional reality . The issues he raises continue to be part of the postcolonial debate around art as regional and national in ...
... English and Caribbean reviewers that grounds the discourse in a Caribbean social , political , economic , and emotional reality . The issues he raises continue to be part of the postcolonial debate around art as regional and national in ...
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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 |