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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... nature of the text and to the task of dismantling a " colonial structure of aware- ness " as Lamming conceptualizes it . There is no troubling delay between the moment of critique and the activity of political resis- tance . Lamming ...
... nature of the text and to the task of dismantling a " colonial structure of aware- ness " as Lamming conceptualizes it . There is no troubling delay between the moment of critique and the activity of political resis- tance . Lamming ...
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... nature of creativity itself . Despite the complexity of the text , resistance and liberation are an exclusively male enterprise in The Pleasures of Exile . The auto- biographical framework generates a self - conscious , self - FOREWORD xxi.
... nature of creativity itself . Despite the complexity of the text , resistance and liberation are an exclusively male enterprise in The Pleasures of Exile . The auto- biographical framework generates a self - conscious , self - FOREWORD xxi.
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... nature of this charge . The result may be capital punish- ment , and I shall be hangman , provided I do not have to use the apparatus that will put the accused to death . It is likely that the accused , when he is found and convicted ...
... nature of this charge . The result may be capital punish- ment , and I shall be hangman , provided I do not have to use the apparatus that will put the accused to death . It is likely that the accused , when he is found and convicted ...
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... nature becomes identical with the Carib Indian who feeds on human flesh . Carib Indian and African slave , both seen as the wild fruits of Nature , share equally that spirit of revolt which Prospero by sword or Language is determined to ...
... nature becomes identical with the Carib Indian who feeds on human flesh . Carib Indian and African slave , both seen as the wild fruits of Nature , share equally that spirit of revolt which Prospero by sword or Language is determined to ...
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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 |