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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Sida viii
... meaning production in colonial societies everywhere . Underlying the text is a theory of language , discourse , and repre- sentation that transforms the author as colonial subject and con- sumer of British intellectual and cultural ...
... meaning production in colonial societies everywhere . Underlying the text is a theory of language , discourse , and repre- sentation that transforms the author as colonial subject and con- sumer of British intellectual and cultural ...
Sida ix
... meaning and value as part of a pattern of Caribbean migration , Caribbean writing , colonial servitude , and a ... meanings that de- termines the text's shifting value in and out of time as method and document of cultural and ...
... meaning and value as part of a pattern of Caribbean migration , Caribbean writing , colonial servitude , and a ... meanings that de- termines the text's shifting value in and out of time as method and document of cultural and ...
Sida x
... meaning in the life around us , only our own strenuous hearing , could make sense of the sounds we made . ( 9 ) In Richard Wright's " Blueprint for Negro Writing , " perspective is a theory about the meaning , structure , and direction ...
... meaning in the life around us , only our own strenuous hearing , could make sense of the sounds we made . ( 9 ) In Richard Wright's " Blueprint for Negro Writing , " perspective is a theory about the meaning , structure , and direction ...
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... meaning of his condition in alternative contexts for self - definition . Whether he is covering the funeral of King George VI for the BBC , driving from Kumasi to Zaria , or exploring Harlem , there is a pronounced sense of contributing ...
... meaning of his condition in alternative contexts for self - definition . Whether he is covering the funeral of King George VI for the BBC , driving from Kumasi to Zaria , or exploring Harlem , there is a pronounced sense of contributing ...
Sida xiv
... meaning contained in the signatures of their former slaves . There may be more mur- ders ; but Caliban is here to stay " ( 63 ) . The stridency of tone that characterizes the book as a whole and the invective that Lamming reserves for ...
... meaning contained in the signatures of their former slaves . There may be more mur- ders ; but Caliban is here to stay " ( 63 ) . The stridency of tone that characterizes the book as a whole and the invective that Lamming reserves for ...
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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 |