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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... future . ( " West Indian People , " 64-65 ) The ceremony validates and authorizes this Caribbean writer's commitment to a dialogistic mode of discourse that privileges a Caribbean way of seeing . Dialogue is prelude to awareness , and ...
... future . ( " West Indian People , " 64-65 ) The ceremony validates and authorizes this Caribbean writer's commitment to a dialogistic mode of discourse that privileges a Caribbean way of seeing . Dialogue is prelude to awareness , and ...
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... This 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.
... This 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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George Lamming. any other way . Caliban's future . . . the very name for possibili- ties - must derive from Prospero's experiment . ( 109 ) In The Pleasures of Exile , this gift of Language is an ambiguous space that can fertilize and ...
George Lamming. any other way . Caliban's future . . . the very name for possibili- ties - must derive from Prospero's experiment . ( 109 ) In The Pleasures of Exile , this gift of Language is an ambiguous space that can fertilize and ...
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... future is unrealized in Shakespeare's play . When Lamming made James's text a focal point of his literary and political discourse in The Pleasures of Exile , James's pioneer- ing Caribbean - centered history was out of print and ...
... future is unrealized in Shakespeare's play . When Lamming made James's text a focal point of his literary and political discourse in The Pleasures of Exile , James's pioneer- ing Caribbean - centered history was out of print and ...
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... if they are going to enter that eternity which will be their last and permanent Future . The living demand to hear whether there is any need for forgiveness , for redemption ; whether , in fact , there may 9 INTRODUCTION.
... if they are going to enter that eternity which will be their last and permanent Future . The living demand to hear whether there is any need for forgiveness , for redemption ; whether , in fact , there may 9 INTRODUCTION.
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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 |