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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... West Indian novelist has brought to the West Indies " ( 36 ) . Lamming's emphasis is on the " West In- dian contribution to English reading " as opposed to " English writ- ing " ( 44 ) . He models a self - conscious self - criticism of ...
... West Indian novelist has brought to the West Indies " ( 36 ) . Lamming's emphasis is on the " West In- dian contribution to English reading " as opposed to " English writ- ing " ( 44 ) . He models a self - conscious self - criticism of ...
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... West Africa , like Black America , is both familiar and strange to the Ca- ribbean writer . In both he discovers a ... Indies could be written about and explored . But only from a van- tage point outside the West Indies " ( " Timehri ...
... West Africa , like Black America , is both familiar and strange to the Ca- ribbean writer . In both he discovers a ... Indies could be written about and explored . But only from a van- tage point outside the West Indies " ( " Timehri ...
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... West Indies are the fruit of synthesis ( Discourse , 64 ) . 7. In his Preface to Beyond a Boundary , James appears to accept the designation Caliban but substitutes Caesar for Prospero : " To establish his own identity , Caliban , after ...
... West Indies are the fruit of synthesis ( Discourse , 64 ) . 7. In his Preface to Beyond a Boundary , James appears to accept the designation Caliban but substitutes Caesar for Prospero : " To establish his own identity , Caliban , after ...
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... West Indies , and for the space of eighteen dayes , we were becalmed , having nowe and then contrary windes , and some Ternados , amongst the same calme , which hap- pened to us very ill , beeing but reasonably watered 12 INTRODUCTION.
... West Indies , and for the space of eighteen dayes , we were becalmed , having nowe and then contrary windes , and some Ternados , amongst the same calme , which hap- pened to us very ill , beeing but reasonably watered 12 INTRODUCTION.
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... Indies , without great death of Negros , and of themselves : but the ... Indies , by the Spaniardes report , who are never able to conquer them , and they are ... West Indian writer , as colonial and exile , from his native kingdom , once ...
... Indies , without great death of Negros , and of themselves : but the ... Indies , by the Spaniardes report , who are never able to conquer them , and they are ... West Indian writer , as colonial and exile , from his native kingdom , once ...
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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 |