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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... facts of 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 ...
... facts of 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 ...
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... facts and the personalities which prompted them " ( Beyond , Preface ) . In both The Pleasures of Exile and Beyond a Boundary , the autobiographical framework grounds intellectual and cultural history in an experience that is lived ...
... facts and the personalities which prompted them " ( Beyond , Preface ) . In both The Pleasures of Exile and Beyond a Boundary , the autobiographical framework grounds intellectual and cultural history in an experience that is lived ...
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... fact " ( 11 ) as colonial subject . The shifting frames of identity in The Pleasures of Exile , from " the field of ... facts of experience , and it is intended as an introduction to a dialogue between you and me . I am the whole world ...
... fact " ( 11 ) as colonial subject . The shifting frames of identity in The Pleasures of Exile , from " the field of ... facts of experience , and it is intended as an introduction to a dialogue between you and me . I am the whole world ...
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... facts of his own mi- gration to London as part of a larger migrating labor force from the Caribbean after World War II to investigate issues of cultural and psychological dependence that Mannoni and Fanon had explored in regard to ...
... facts of his own mi- gration to London as part of a larger migrating labor force from the Caribbean after World War II to investigate issues of cultural and psychological dependence that Mannoni and Fanon had explored in regard to ...
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... fact models an ideological and aesthetic reso- lution of the historical and cultural contradictions of the multi- ethnic , multiracial , polyglot Caribbean . Lamming's ideological and aesthetic commitment is to the production of the ...
... fact models an ideological and aesthetic reso- lution of the historical and cultural contradictions of the multi- ethnic , multiracial , polyglot Caribbean . Lamming's ideological and aesthetic commitment is to the production of the ...
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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 |