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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... experience as colonial subject . And it calls attention to its own artfully rendered ideological bias as a part of the dynamic process of cultural production and consumption in a period of decolonization.2 As intellectual history , The ...
... experience as colonial subject . And it calls attention to its own artfully rendered ideological bias as a part of the dynamic process of cultural production and consumption in a period of decolonization.2 As intellectual history , The ...
Sida ix
... experience and of a wide range of experience within his cultural domain as colonial subject . Self acquires meaning and value as part of a pattern of Caribbean migration , Caribbean writing , colonial servitude , and a tradition of ...
... experience and of a wide range of experience within his cultural domain as colonial subject . Self acquires meaning and value as part of a pattern of Caribbean migration , Caribbean writing , colonial servitude , and a tradition of ...
Sida x
... experience as evidence and a guide . ( 56 ) Perspective is expressive of resistance , commitment , and self - cel- ebrating creativity . It emphasizes the substance and method of the writer's calculated decentering of colonial discourse ...
... experience as evidence and a guide . ( 56 ) Perspective is expressive of resistance , commitment , and self - cel- ebrating creativity . It emphasizes the substance and method of the writer's calculated decentering of colonial discourse ...
Sida xi
... experience that is lived passionately . Self is problematized , but the performative function of the text remains stable . Deeply interactive with the anti - imperialist imperative of Caribbean nationhood , the author as colonial ...
... experience that is lived passionately . Self is problematized , but the performative function of the text remains stable . Deeply interactive with the anti - imperialist imperative of Caribbean nationhood , the author as colonial ...
Sida xiii
... experience as evidence and example of colonial alienation and exile transformed into a site of liberation from " his original knowl- edge , the knowledge of his original fact " ( 11 ) as colonial subject . The shifting frames of ...
... experience as evidence and example of colonial alienation and exile transformed into a site of liberation from " his original knowl- edge , the knowledge of his original fact " ( 11 ) as colonial subject . The shifting frames of ...
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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 |